[Python-Dev] 2.5 open issues

[Thomas Heller]

Neal Norwitz wrote:
> If you are addressed on this message, it means you have open issues
> that need to be resolved for 2.5.  Some of these issues are
> documentation, others are code issues.

> Documentation missing:
> +++++++++++++++++++
> Fredrik: ElementTree
> Gerhard: pysqlite
> Martin: msilib
> Thomas: ctypes
> 
> Thomas, I know you checked in some ctypes docs.  Is that everything or
> is there more coming?  It seemed pretty short given the size of
> ctypes.
> 
> If you don't expect to have time to finish these tasks, then it's your
> job to find someone else who will.

I was fearing it is getting too long.  How many pages do you expect or will you
tolerate (yes, this is a serious question)?

I could imaging three parts of the ctypes docs:

1. The tutorial, which is already checked in.

2. A reference manual, listing all the available functions and types (it will
probably duplicate a lot of what is in the tutorial).

3. Some articles/howtos which cover advanced issues.

I have the start of a reference manual, which is about 12 pages now.  Incomplete, some sections
are not yet or no longer correct, but you can take a look at it here:

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/manual/manual.html

This could be completed and committed into SVN soon.

Thomas