Keith> My personal gripe is this. I think the core language, as of 2.3 Keith> or 2.4 is very good, has more features than most people will ever Keith> use, and they (Guido, et al.) can stop tinkering with it now and Keith> concentrate more on the standard libraries.
What keeps you from being part of the "et al"? This is open source, after all. Note that there's more to be done than simply writing code. Documentation always needs attention. Bug reports and patches always need to be verified and vetted. Even mundane stuff like managing mailing lists detracts from the time the most experienced people could spend writing code you might not be able to do. There's lots to do. Start here: http://www.python.org/dev/ Go anywhere. <wink> Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list