[Python-Dev] New python developer

[Guido van Rossum]

Welcome Amaury! Your contributions have already been most helpful.
Thanks for letting us peek at your background!

--Guido

On Nov 13, 2007 1:05 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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