[Python-3000] Reminder: Py3k PEPs due by April (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Apr 10 19:53:40 CEST 2007

As I stated in my PyCon keynote and repeated (though somewhat hidden) in PEP 3000, all PEPs for Py3k are due by April. The end of April is only a few weeks away, so now is the time to start drafting that PEP if you care about Python 3000! This is so that we will be able to concentrate on implementing the accepted proposals by June, in time for the planned release 3.0a1.

Your PEP doesn't have to be accepted by April 30; but it should be in good shape, have seen some discussion on python-3000 (or python-ideas), and have popular support. We can do the final discussion about acceptance of individual PEPs (including some revisions) after the deadline; but no PEP submitted after the deadline has a chance.

This applies to my own pet projects as well; in particular, if I want Abstract Base Classes in Py3k, I will have to write up a PEP by April 30. If you want interfaces or generic functions, likewise, you need to have a decent PEP submitted by April 30!

I'm currently working on the new I/O library, and am confident that this will be in a usable shape by the end of this week. fter that, I plan to concentrate on the str/unicode unification, which is by far the riskiest project still to be done.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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