
Hello, As you may have seen, I have recently been granted developer privileges on python svn. Let me introduce myself. I am French, 35 years old, and father of 5 children. I work as a programmer in a fund manager company, and have been working with python for eight years now. What I mostly like in python are: - fun to work with - its robustness: not only against bugs, but the stability of its concepts, and the readability of its code base; - easy to interface with any other system. To start with python development, I think I will try to help with python3.0, or picking some bugs in the issue tracker. I have some knowledge of the python internals, with hours of debugging sessions of a C++ application mixed with the python interpreter. And I think I have read almost every svn commit for two years. I can also help on win32 specific development. As an example, I find that the distutils module don't work very well with the new compilers. I won't be of much help on Unix, though. I also like good and accurate documentation. Even if my english may be poor sometimes, I can help with writing some parts. Digging in the code to extract specifications is one of my favourite jobs. And of course I can help on other subjects if there is some interest. I am very excited to take part in this great project. So please forgive me if I do something wrong or too quickly. And your (kind) remarks will always be welcome. -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

Welcome Amaury! Your contributions have already been most helpful. Thanks for letting us peek at your background! --Guido On Nov 13, 2007 1:05 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
As you may have seen, I have recently been granted developer privileges on python svn.
Let me introduce myself. I am French, 35 years old, and father of 5 children. I work as a programmer in a fund manager company, and have been working with python for eight years now.
What I mostly like in python are: - fun to work with - its robustness: not only against bugs, but the stability of its concepts, and the readability of its code base; - easy to interface with any other system.
To start with python development, I think I will try to help with python3.0, or picking some bugs in the issue tracker.
I have some knowledge of the python internals, with hours of debugging sessions of a C++ application mixed with the python interpreter. And I think I have read almost every svn commit for two years.
I can also help on win32 specific development. As an example, I find that the distutils module don't work very well with the new compilers. I won't be of much help on Unix, though. I also like good and accurate documentation. Even if my english may be poor sometimes, I can help with writing some parts. Digging in the code to extract specifications is one of my favourite jobs. And of course I can help on other subjects if there is some interest.
I am very excited to take part in this great project. So please forgive me if I do something wrong or too quickly. And your (kind) remarks will always be welcome.
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On Nov 13, 2007 1:05 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> wrote:
I can also help on win32 specific development. As an example, I find that the distutils module don't work very well with the new compilers. I won't be of much help on Unix, though.
We need more help on Windows! Most of us are Unix only, so it will be great to have some help here. There are many windows bugs in the bug tracker if you'd like to take a look there. Welcome and good work so far! It's great seeing some of the memory issues in py3k get addressed. n
participants (4)
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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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Brett Cannon
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Guido van Rossum
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Neal Norwitz