[Python-Dev] Documenting [C]Python's Internals

Giampaolo Rodolà g.rodola at gmail.com
Thu May 20 01:08:22 CEST 2010


2010/5/20 Yaniv Aknin <yaniv at aknin.name>:
> Hi,
> I wanted to let python-dev know about a series of articles about CPython's
> internals I'm publishing under the collective title "Guido's Python"*
> (http://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/guidos-python/). Three articles already
> were published already, more are planned (mainly focused on CPython/py3k,
> but comparisons with other implementations may also be covered; we'll
> see). So far I've done an introduction/whirlwind tour of Py_Main and a
> two-article in-depth review of the (new-style) object system.
> I'm sharing this with you (and hope you care) due to three reasons, probably
> in escalating importance:
> (a) Maybe some of python-dev's readers would be interested (possibly the
> newer and more silent members).
> (b) Maybe my scales are wrong, but I was a bit surprised by the number of
> readers (>20,000 in the past two weeks); I wouldn't want to mislead such a
> reader base and would be happy if a veteran here would be interested in
> aiding by technically proofing the material (shan't be too hard I hope, feel
> free to contact me directly if qualified and interested).
> (c) While the content is currently geared to be blog-oriented, if it's found
> worthy by the group I'd be delighted to formulate it into something more
> 'reference-material-ish' and give it back to the community. I found no
> centrally organized CPython-internals material other than bits and pieces
> (descrintro, eclectic blog posts, lectures, C-API reference, etc), and I
> hope maybe something like this could be featured more officially
> on python.org, with the relevant 'this is subject to change' disclaimers
> (can be a document for new contributors, for pure Python programmers who're
> just interested, or for whatever we decide).
> Questions? Comments?
>  - Yaniv
> * think "Tim Berners-Lee's Web" or "Keanu Reeves' Green Gibberish", see the
> first post for details
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Great!
This can be *extremely* useful for new developers like me who still
haven't took a look at cPython internals.
Thanks for the effort.


--- Giampaolo
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