[Python-Dev] cleanup list

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 20:47:37 CEST 2006


On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:43:43PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> BTW, someone looking for an easy task might enjoy rewriting other
> tp_traverse slots to use Py_VISIT.  We even have cases now (like
> super_traverse) where modules define their own workalike
> traverse-visit macros, which has become confusing since a standard
> macro was defined for this purpose.

A.M. Kuchling amk asked:

> Do we need a list of CPython cleanup projects?
> (Compare to the Linux kernel janitors:
> <http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/TODO>.)

It would probably be useful, if there were someone ready to verify and
commit the cleanups.

A similar list for python modules might be even more useful; I doubt
I'm the only one often without a working C setup.  (Common on windows,
I've seen it even on unix boxes that did have python preinstalled.)

-jJ


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