[Python-Dev] SoC AST generation question (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Mar 19 22:29:56 CET 2007

On 3/19/07, Jay Parlar <parlar at gmail.com> wrote:

I'm considering applying to be a student in this year's SoC, and the AST code generation in particular looks interesting to me (listed here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas/PythonCore).

I was wondering a few things: 1) Who would most likely mentor this project?

There is no way of really telling. It all depends on what projects mentors get attracted to.

2) I've never worked in the core before (but have been using Python as my primary language for about 6 years), so I'm wondering if the potential mentor thinks it'd even be feasible for me to jump at a project like this without prior knowledge.

If you know C code you should be okay for the re-implementation of the peephole optimizer to use the AST and the parse tree -> AST auto-translation tool. Core knowledge would help with the feature to allow an AST to be passed in somewhere to generate bytecode.

But part of the point of GSoC is to teach people about the core, so don't let lack of knowledge prevent you from applying. Just take it into account when writing up your propoosal.

-Brett

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