[soc2008-general] schemepy suggestion for students...

[Tim Ansell]

Hello,

I'm a mentor for the Thousand Parsec organisation which uses massive
amounts of Python. I would like to suggest that the following idea would
be suitable for the Python Software Foundation too.

Our description of the task can be found at,
http://www.thousandparsec.net/wiki/Ideas_for_Programmers#Intergrate_and_improve_schemepy

The general gist of the task is that we are looking to create a good
portable and fast way to embed scheme into Python. We want to do this by
giving a bunch of scheme libraries (including a couple in pure python) a
common interface.

I know that the PSF choose a task last year which was to implement
Scheme using PyPy. I believe it was fairly successful and this project
would be very related (almost an extension of it).

What do people think?

I would be happy to mentor this project as part of the PSF if they wish.
We would love to accept it at Thousand Parsec, but it is unlikely we
will get enough slots to go forward with this lower priority task. (Of
course if we only get bad applications and a good schemepy application
we will definitely go forward with it!)

Tim 'Mithro' Ansell