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Four of the guys from Pythonlabs are going to be at the sprint on plan on sprint on *something*. This is all being led by Guido, but he is busy and has no specific ideas of what to sprint on. If you have any, please list them below.

  • Close as many bugs on SF as possible.

  • Implement one of the namespace speed-up PEPs (266, 267, or 280) or anything else to help prevent Guido from getting a pie in the face. =)

  • My pet bug is reliable signal handling when using event loops like PyGTK. I think an extra C-level hook in the core would make it possible to do this right. (At the moment, SIGINT/KeyboardInterrupt is blocked until python regains control). I’d be interested in participating in an effort to fix this one. - PyConBrianWarner

  • Free threading (which has been asked for almost as long as namespace speed-ups :-)“) - Thomas Wouters)

  • Work on the AST branch (will make Jeremy happy =)

  • Fix rexec. (I happen to think it has potential and is worth saving). - Brian Warner

  • Fully document classes, both classic and new-style

  • make _p_changed=1 after changing a list or a dictionary unnecessary (ZODB) - Thomas Guettler <guettli@thomas-guettler.de>

  • Implement CALL_ATTR to speed up method calling

  • Make the profiler support threads

  • Implement a new I/O library

  • Start work on new sockets interface as mentioned by Guido on python-dev (email at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-March/034042.html )

Sprinters so far:

  • Guido van Rossum (coach)

  • Jeremy Hylton

  • Tim Peters

  • Brett Cannon

  • Ka-Ping Yee

  • Thomas Wouters

  • Neil Schemenauer

  • Aahz

  • Neal Norwitz

Projects chosen so far:

  • CALL_ATTR (Thomas, Brett)

  • speed up new-class instance attribute lookup using a cache (Ping, Aahz)

  • AST branch (Jeremy, Tim, Neil)

A summary of the speedup sprint work is in my blog: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4396 –Guido

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