Before we all become focused on new features for Python 2.1, it would be nice to do a bit more work on raising awareness of the new features in 2.0. There's little point in developing software if you don't actually tell anyone about it, after all. I'd like to suggest that people try to write some brief articles, just a few pages long, each covering a particular feature in some detail. Looking through the list of new stuff, the most significant features are: * Unicode support. (Perl's UTF-8 support still seems incomplete, with developers referring to it as "unusable", so we should definitely try and point out that we have working Unicode support right now.) * Distutils: an introduction to writing setup scripts for simple Python modules, packages, and C extensions. * The new XML tools. * The new gettext support. * Maybe the linuxaudiodev module, too. Any other suggestions? If the story of how a particular feature was implemented is interesting, then that would also make a fine topic for a more developer-oriented publication such as DDJ. SRE or Unicode may be the best candidates for this sort of thing, as their implementation presented various tricky technical problems along the way. Any volunteers? --amk
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