[Python-Dev] New python developer

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Hello,

As you may have seen, I have recently been granted developer
privileges on python svn.

Let me introduce myself. I am French, 35 years old, and father of 5 children.
I work as a programmer in a fund manager company, and have been
working with python for eight years now.

What I mostly like in python are:
- fun to work with
- its robustness: not only against bugs, but the stability of its
concepts, and the readability of its code base;
- easy to interface with any other system.

To start with python development, I think I will try to help with
python3.0, or picking some bugs in the issue tracker.

I have some knowledge of the python internals, with hours of debugging
sessions of a C++ application mixed with the python interpreter. And I
think I have read almost every svn commit for two years.

I can also help on win32 specific development. As an example, I find
that the distutils module don't work very well with the new compilers.
I won't be of much help on Unix, though.
I also like good and accurate documentation. Even if my english may be
poor sometimes, I can help with writing some parts. Digging in the
code to extract specifications is one of my favourite jobs.
And of course I can help on other subjects if there is some interest.

I am very excited to take part in this great project. So please
forgive me if I do something wrong or too quickly. And your (kind)
remarks will always be welcome.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc