[Python-Dev] Looking for master thesis ideas involving Python

[Brett C.]

Michael Hudson wrote:

> "Brett C." <bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> 
> 
>>Dennis Allison wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Brett -- 
>>>You might put together a list of all the ideas (maybe even a ranked
>>>list)
>>>and post it as a unit to the list for archival purposes.  Thanks.
>>>	
>>
>>Way ahead of you, Dennis.  I have already started to come up with a
>>reST doc for writing up all of these suggestions.  It just might be a
>>little while before I get it up since I will need to do some
>>preliminary research on each idea to measure the amount of work they
>>will be.
> 
> 
> Could go on the Python Wiki?
> 

Could.  Let me get it done in reST locally, then I can look at adding it 
to the wiki.

> I take it from your posting of last week that you've thought about
> other ways of implementing exception handling?  I guess a
> non-reference count based GC is a prerequisite for that...
> 

Yeah, I have tossed the exception handling idea around in my head a 
little, but the culmination was what I posted.

And a non-refcount GC would definitely help, even if the exception 
handling wasn't changed.  More places where you could just return NULL 
instead of having to deal with DECREFing objects.

-Brett