Dear sprinters! I've a batch of pending patches I like to get into Python before the next alphas are send out. The math, epoll/kqueue and shell folder patches just need a review. The memory management patches are more complex. Please refer to the thread "int/float freelists vs pymalloc", too. epoll and kqueue patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue1657 Mark's and my math branch: trunk$ svnmerge.py merge -S svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-math Windows shell folder patch for os.path: http://bugs.python.org/issue1763 Memory management of ints, floats and longs http://bugs.python.org/issue2039 http://bugs.python.org/issue2013 I've also two pending PEPs. I like to see at least PEP 370 in Python 2.6 and 3.0. It's not as intrusive as PEP 370 and IMHO very useful for deployment of Python applications. Post import hooks http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0369/ Per user site-packages directory http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ Christian