[Python-Dev] Introduction

[Jeffery Roberts]

Thanks for all of your replies.  The front-end rewrite sounds especially
interesting. I'm going to look into that.  Is the entire front end
changing (ie scan/parse/ast) or just the AST structure ?

If you have any more information or directions please let me know.

Jeff

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Tim Peters wrote:

> [Jeffery Roberts]
> > I'm new to the list and thought I would quickly introduce myself. My
> > name is Jeff and I am a university student [4th year] living in
> > Toronto.
> >
> > I would love to be able to help with Python-dev in some way. I'm
> > especially interested in issues directly related to the interpreter
> > itself.  I have gained some compiler development experience while at
> > the university and would love to continue working in this area.
> >
> > If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on how best I could proceed
> > in this direction, I would love to hear them.
>
> As Christian said, you should enjoy pypy (an ambitious new project).  Less
> ambitious is a rewrite of the front end, currently in progress on the
> ast-branch branch of the Python CVS repository.  If you'd like to get your
> feet wet first, there's always a backlog of Python bug and patch reports on
> SourceForge begging for attention.  Check out
>
>     http://www.python.org/dev/
>
> for orientation, and leave your spare time at the door <wink>.
>
>