[Python-Dev] Developer resources (was Re: Stability and change) (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:15:45 -0400

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Not sure that's really the right approach. I'd rather see more effort go to persistent resources (like www.python.org/dev/; thanks Andrew!). Questions can reasonably be sent to python-dev and can feed the expansion & update of that material.

If anyone can make time to write guides, here are some specific points from a newer developer after tackling a small Python internals project, extracted from one of the emails I'm unlikely ever to answer (there isn't "a crisis" here, so it goes to the bottom of the stack):

""" I was surprised at how many skills I needed to acquire to get this done:

The good/bad news is that those things come up soooooo often that within a few weeks they'll forget they were ever a mystery. The barriers to entry are many; then again, the kind of code developer Python needs is someone obsessed enough to view that as a contemptible challenge .