Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

[Terry Reedy]

Ben Finney wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
> 
>>> This is rather disappointing. Is that entire page suspect? 
>> All documentation about Python 3 is suspect until Python 3 gets
>> actually released (nobody can say for sure how the release will
>> look like in all details).
> 
> Is there a better information source, then, for the current state of
> what's expected in Python 3.0?

Start with the actual beta release.  That is what is there.  There are a 
few tweaks that might happen, and a few modules that might be added, and 
some bugs that should be fixed.  The issue tracker has information on 
the day-to-day state of most of these.