It did not. PEP 380 will not see the light of day until the moratorium is lifted. This made me sad while I was writing it, but it is what it is.
It looks like it will be up to the library/framework builders to keep the python hype/momentum going while the language maintainers are playing grown-up and being responsible.
[1] for everyone else's sake: http://jessenoller.com/2009/11/09/pep-3003-python-language-m...
For example, right now there's discussion about a futures library (ala Java's implementation) for inclusion. There's plenty of work to be done there to make sure some of our older batteries are cleaned up, new ones included, etc.
Two years is a long time - but how much of that needs to go into the syntax rather than the standard library? What about more abstractions on top of threading/multiprocessing? An actor implementation? More web technology support?
Python is more than the sum of it's implementation - and even that is fair game (see antoine's latest GIL work as an example).
OT: Does Chromium (Dev channel, Ubuntu 9.10) not have feed autodetection? I had to look at the page source to find this.
> Used often in the business world, this incredibly versatile phrase can be literally translated as "fuck it."
Edit: tongue-in-cheek
Remember, well above 90% of the users out there are still on 2.4 and 2.5 - even if pep 380 went in, it would more than likely be in 3k only (a few years from widespread adoption anyway) and in a release OS vendors won't ship for a few years.