> Okay, as I said, Atomic Grouping, etc., off a recent 2.6 is already 
> available and I can do any cleanups requested to those already 
> mentioned, I just don't want to start any new items at the moment.  As 
> it is, we are still over a year from any of this seeing the light of day 
> as it's not going to be merged until we start 2.7 / 3.1 alpha.

3.1 will actually be released, if all goes well, before July of this
year. The first alpha was released a couple of days ago. The goal is to
fix most deficiencies of the 3.0 release.

See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0375/ for the planned release
schedule.