[Python-Dev] 2.0 Release Plans (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:00:33 -0400

[Fredrik Lundh]

[on patch 100899]

mal has reviewed the patch, and is waiting for an update from me.

Thanks! On that basis, I've reassigned the patch to you.

PS. the best way to get me to do something is to add a task to the task manager.

Yikes! I haven't looked at the thing since the day after I enabled it -- thanks for the clue.

I currently have three things on my slate:

17333 add os.popen2 support for Unix

Guido definitely wants this for 2.0, but there's no patch for it and no entry in PEP 200. Jeremy, please add it.

17334 add PyErrFormat to errors module 17335 add compressed unicode database

Those two are in Open patches, and both assigned to you.

if I missed something, let me know.

In your email (to Guido and me) from Monday, 31-July-2000,

so to summarize, Python 2.0 will support the following hex-escapes:

\xNN \uNNNN \UNNNNNNNN where the last two are only supported in Unicode and SRE strings. I'll provide patches later this week, once the next SRE release is wrapped up (later tonight, I hope).

This apparently fell through the cracks, and I finally remembered it last Friday, and added them to PEP 200 recently. Guido wants this in 2.0, and accepted them long before feature-freeze. I'm currently writing a PEP for the \x change (because it has a surreal chance of breaking old code). I haven't written any code for it. The new \U escape is too minor to need a PEP (according to me).