[$] More frequent Python releases?

Python has followed an 18-month release cycle for many years now; eachnew 3.x release comes at that frequency. It has worked well, overall,but there is interest in having a shorter cycle, which would mean that newfeatures get into users' hands more quickly. But changing that longstandingcycle has implications in many different places, some of which have come upas part of a discussion on switching to a cycle of a different length.