[python-committers] introduction

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 17:32:35 CET 2014


Hello,

Thank you very much for accepting me as a member of your team!
Python is the most beautiful, simple and complex language I
ever knew, and it's an honor for me to help to make it better.

Just to give you an idea of how passionate I am about python,
I'd like to tell you a short story.  When I just started to
work on PEP 362 with Brett and Larry, we had a few discussions
of how things should be going and I promised them to draft a
first version of the PEP and implementation by the end of the
week. On Friday, I decided to make a surprise for my girlfriend
and booked a weekend in Montreal, and in the morning of
Saturday I woke up with a fever of 37 degrees. Well, it's just
37, I'll be OK by the time we drive there. Hell I was wrong.
For two days, the only thing I was romantically attached to,
was my bed in the hotel room. And midday of Sunday, I realized
that I have a promise to fulfill. So here I was, sitting on the
bed, with a fever of 39 degrees, with one eye closed, and the
other one so filled with tears so I had to squish it to have
a clear spot on the screen, working on that draft and writing
unittests. All because I knew that while it'd be OK to wait a
few days, we didn't actually have time for that, because the
release was just around the corner, and every day was important.

So, again, thank you very much!  I now have to break the
buildbot I guess..

Yury


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