[Python-Dev] 2.2.1 release schedule

[Tim Peters]

[Michael Hudson]
> I'd like to put out 2.2.1 release candidate 1 early next week
> (i.e. Monday, if possible), with the intent of releasing 2.2.1 a week
> later.

What do you want to call it?  Like, 2.2.1a1, or 2.2.1b1, or 2.2.1c1, or ...?

> I'm planning to spend a fair part of this weekend doing fun things
> like trolling through CVS logs and bug reports making sure that
> nothing too major has been missed.

I just tried building a Windows installer based on 2.2.1 CVS.  It revealed
that pydoc blows up now, easiest to see via cmdline help():

C:\Pyt>python
Python 2.2.1a1 (#32, Mar 14 2002, 14:10:11) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import __builtin__
>>> help(__builtin__)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\site.py", line 279, in __call__
    return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 1509, in __call__
    self.help(request)
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 1545, in help
    else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 1340, in doc
    pager(title % (desc + suffix) + '\n\n' + text.document(thing, name))
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 267, in document
    if inspect.ismodule(object): return apply(self.docmodule, args)
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 960, in docmodule
    contents.append(self.document(value, key, name))
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 268, in document
    if inspect.isclass(object): return apply(self.docclass, args)
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 1005, in docclass
    doc = getdoc(object)
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\pydoc.py", line 66, in getdoc
    result = inspect.getdoc(object) or inspect.getcomments(object)
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\inspect.py", line 267, in getdoc
    lines = string.split(string.expandtabs(object.__doc__), '\n')
  File "C:\Pyt\lib\string.py", line 298, in expandtabs
    return s.expandtabs(tabsize)
AttributeError: 'member_descriptor' object has no attribute 'expandtabs'
>>>

I see it blows up likewise in current CVS.  This example works fine in 2.2,
though.

I never use pydoc, so it would be helpful if someone who does adopted it.