PJE's work on Python 2.5

2.5 Alpha 1 Targets (4/1/06)
2.5 Alpha 2 Targets (4/29/06)

Items marked "CPF" are "Checkin Pending Feedback", meaning there is an implementation that has been proposed to Python-Dev and is ready to be checked in if there are no objections.

Items marked "PATCH" have a patch registered with the Python patch tracker for feedback prior to checkin.

2.5 Alpha 1 Targets (4/1/06)

Distutils Enhancements

install PKG-INFO with packages
- create install_egg_info command, link in with install
- where should this be documented?

PEP 342 - Coroutines/Generator Enhancements

(DONE) traceback argument to throw() needs to accept an explicit None
(DONE) throw() needs to support propagating string exceptions
review stdlib/langref/tutorial/whatsnew docs for correctness/completeness

Misc.

(DONE) Fix PEP 343 contextmanager __exit__() issue and missing RuntimeError
Have site module process .pth files in all sys.path dirs, not just "site-packages" dirs

2.5 Alpha 2 Targets (4/29/06)

Setuptools Integration

Release setuptools 0.6a11
Integrate pkg_resources module (probably needed for PEP 302 fixes to pydoc)

PEP 302 Finish-Out

Make pydoc support zipped modules and packages
Make traceback module support zipped modules
Make inspect module support zipped modules
Add code to support find/load of modules ala imp, but using full PEP 302 semantics

The `wsgiref` Library

(DONE) Implement Guido's patch for proper HTTP Date: header format
Create stdlib documentation for the modules, in PythonDoc format
Copy source and docs to the stdlib
Integrate the test suite with the stdlib test suite
Integrate the docs with the stdlib docs