[Python-Dev] status of development documentation

[Brett Cannon]

On 12/24/05, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, test_builtin and test_pep263 both passed on WinXP in rev 39757.
> That's the last revision before the AST branch was merged.
>
> I can't build rev 39758 on WinXP (VC complains that pythoncore.vcproj
> can't be loaded -- looks like it got checked in with unresolved SVN
> conflict markers -- which isn't easy to do under SVN ;-( ), so don't
> know about that.
>
> The first revision at which Python built again was 39791 (23 Oct), and
> test_builtin and test_pep263 both fail under that the same way they
> fail today.
>

Both syntax errors, right?  My mind is partially gone thanks to being
on vacation so following this thread has been abnormally hard.  =)

Since it is a syntax error there won't be any bytecode to compare against.

> I'm darned near certain that we're not using the _intended_ parsing
> code on Windows now -- PGEN is still #define'd when the "final"
> parsing code is compiled into python25.dll.  Don't know how to fix
> that (I don't understand it).

But the AST branch didn't touch the parser (unless you are grouping
ast.c and compile.c under the "parser" umbrella just to throw me off 
=).

What can I do to help?  Do you need me to step through something?  Do
you need to know how gcc is preprocessing some file?

-Brett