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

[Chiyuan Zhang]

Sounds interesting. But I'm wondering Python's library should
be much richer than Scheme's. Is there any "killer" library
in scheme that needed to be used directly from Python? What
will be the main advantage if we have this project implemented?

Thanks.

2008/3/24, Tim Ansell <mithro at mithis.com>:
> 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
>
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