[Python-Dev] Contributing to Python (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jan 3 22:12:51 CET 2008

On Jan 3, 2008 12:17 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai at in-nomine.org> wrote:

-On [20080103 20:39], Guido van Rossum (guido at python.org) wrote: >My main gripe is with code contributions to Py3k and 2.6; Py3k is >mostly done by a handful of people, and almost nobody is working much >on 2.6.

You don't put the bar high for newbies on the Python project eh? :) I am assuming that most of those contributions code-wise need a fair amount of knowledge of Python's internals?

Actually, it goes all over the place. Some things (like doing "-3" warnings for uses of .keys() that assume the result is a list) required wizard level knowledge; other things are fairly simple. For example, abc.py and _abcoll.py were backported successfully by someone who was learning on the job. Backporting pure Python code often isn't that hard.

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