[Python-Dev] Introduction (original) (raw)

Jeffery Roberts g9robjef@cdf.toronto.edu
Thu, 22 May 2003 16:56:51 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks for all of your replies. The front-end rewrite sounds especially interesting. I'm going to look into that. Is the entire front end changing (ie scan/parse/ast) or just the AST structure ?

If you have any more information or directions please let me know.

Jeff

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Tim Peters wrote:

[Jeffery Roberts] > I'm new to the list and thought I would quickly introduce myself. My > name is Jeff and I am a university student [4th year] living in > Toronto. > > I would love to be able to help with Python-dev in some way. I'm > especially interested in issues directly related to the interpreter > itself. I have gained some compiler development experience while at > the university and would love to continue working in this area. > > If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on how best I could proceed > in this direction, I would love to hear them.

As Christian said, you should enjoy pypy (an ambitious new project). Less ambitious is a rewrite of the front end, currently in progress on the ast-branch branch of the Python CVS repository. If you'd like to get your feet wet first, there's always a backlog of Python bug and patch reports on SourceForge begging for attention. Check out http://www.python.org/dev/ for orientation, and leave your spare time at the door .