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@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ TO DO
Core and Builtins
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+- Remove the f_restricted attribute from frames. This naturally leads to teh
+ removal of PyEval_GetRestricted() and PyFrame_IsRestricted().
+
- PEP 3132 was accepted. That means that you can do ``a, *b = range(5)``
to assign 0 to a and [1, 2, 3, 4] to b.
@@ -175,11 +178,19 @@ Extension Modules
Library
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+- Remove the compiler package. Use of the _ast module and (an eventual) AST ->
+ bytecode mechanism.
+
+- Remove md5 and sha. Both have been deprecated since Python 2.5.
+
+- Remove Bastion and rexec as they have been disabled since Python 2.3 (this
+ also leads to the C API support for restricted execution).
+
- Remove obsolete IRIX modules: al, cd, cl, fl, fm, gl, imgfile, sgi, sv.
-- Remove bsddb185 module it was obsolete.
+- Remove bsddb185 module; it was obsolete.
-- Remove commands.getstatus() it was obsolete.
+- Remove commands.getstatus(); it was obsolete.
- Remove functions in string and strop modules that are also string methods.