I know this pain; I am forced to work with GAE every day now. And let me tell you, the only thing worse than not having 2.7's features is having un-patched bugs

I know this pain; I am forced to work with GAE every day now. And let me tell you, the only thing worse than not having 2.7's features is having un-patched bugs from as early as 2008--like one that prevents keyword arguments from being unicode strings, for instance! Seeing the other list of changes/"mandatory improvements" in child's link makes me weep all the more. I will have to start another crusade to get 2.7 support and between stuff like documentation, testing (gasp!), Django-nonrel, and HRD, I am fresh out of crusade slots.