PJE's work on Python 2.5

2.5 Alpha 1 Targets (4/5/06)
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 (4/5/06)

Distutils Enhancements

install PKG-INFO with packages (as described in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060719.html )
- (DONE) 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
(DONE) document that yield can now occur inside try/finally
(PATCH #1463867) Enhance garbage collector to allow breaking cycles that pass through simple generator states (i.e., ones with no active try blocks).
review stdlib/langref/tutorial/whatsnew docs for correctness/completeness

PEP 343 - The "with" statement

(DONE) Document the with statement in the language reference
(DONE) Document the context manager protocol in the language reference
(DONE) Implement context support for dummy_thread
(DONE) Document the contextlib module in the library reference
(DONE) Document PEP 343 changes to thread, threading, file, and Decimal
(DONE) Fix contextlib.contextmanager not copying __dict__
(DONE) Fix SF#1462485: StopIteration raised in body of with statement suppressed
Apply Guido's cleanup suggestion to the StopIteration catch

Misc.

(DONE) Fix PEP 343 contextmanager __exit__() issue and missing RuntimeError
(REJECTED) Have site module process .pth files in all sys.path dirs, not just "site-packages" dirs (this is actually optional, but it would eliminate the need for easy_install to do site.py hacks when it installs stuff to PYTHONPATH dirs.)

2.5 Alpha 2 Targets (4/29/06)

Setuptools Integration

(DONE) Release setuptools 0.6a11
Rename site.py in setuptools to _site.py
Install a snapshot of setuptools to Lib/ on the trunk
Create PKG-INFO files for ctypes and ElementTree
Integrate pkg_resources module w/stdlib (probably needed for PEP 302 fixes to pydoc, see below)

PEP 302 Finish-Out

Make traceback module support zipped modules (using __loader__.get_source)
Make inspect module support zipped modules (using __loader__.get_source)
Make pydoc support zipped modules and packages (using pkg_resources APIs)
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 documentation for the package 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