Python 3000 status update
Guido van Rossum has posted a detailed
update on the state of Python 3000. "
A schedule was first published around a year ago; we were aiming for a first 3.0 alpha release by the end of the first half of 2007, with a final 3.0 release a year later... This schedule has slipped a bit; we're now looking at a first alpha by the end of August, and the final release is moved up by the same amount. (The schedule slip is largely due to the amount of work resulting from the transition to all-Unicode text strings and mutable raw bytes arrays. Perhaps I also haven't delegated enough of the work to other developers; a mistake I am frantically trying to correct.)"