PyCon2006/Sprints/PythonCore

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Possible Topics

• Implementing PEPs

  • PEP 328 absolute/relative import

  • PEP 343 implementation (‘with:’)

  • PEP 308 implementation (‘x if y else z’)

  • PEP 302 suggestions (fix pydoc and traceback printing to support zipfiles, implement sys.meta_path objects for built-in, frozen, and sys.path importers; search for “phase 2” in the PEP for other ideas)

  • PEP 352 (exception hierarchy)

  • any other PEPs Guido might OK @ PyCon (PEP 352, 357, etc.)

• AST work

  • export AST to Python

    • Basic pychecker functionality

  • rewrite peepholer to use AST instead of modifying bytecode directly (where applicable)

  • Finish work on ast-objects branch (it’s leaking refs)

  • Clean up the Grammar file

• Patch/bug processing

  • Incorporate PEP content into the LaTeX docs

  • Bugs to look at: 777884 (needs ruling from an XML/minidom maintainer)

  • Patches to look at: 686545 (mailbox modification – SoC-supported work)

  • Bugs/patches left over from last Bug Day (PythonBugDayStatus)

  • BuildBot-discovered bugs (http://wiki.python.org/moin/BuildBot and http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/)

• Build

  • Rewrite setup.py (for simplification and easier customization)

• Hash out bytes type

• Rewrite fileobject to avoid C stdio

• Implement final decision on outputting integers in different bases

• rewrite setup.py

Attendees

• Brett Cannon

• Thomas Wouters

• John Ehresman (probably)