[Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

[Prashant Kumar]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

>  On 07/09/2010 15:02, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>
>> On 01:33 pm, phd at phd.pp.ru wrote:
>>
>>> Hello. Thank you for the offer!
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:36:10PM +0530, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>>>
>>>> My name is Prashant Kumar and I wish to contribute to the Python
>>>> development
>>>> process by helping convert certain existing python
>>>> over to python3k.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyway I could obtain a list of libraries which need to be
>>>> ported
>>>> over to python3k, sorted by importance(by importance i mean
>>>> packages which serve as a dependency for larger number of packages being
>>>> more important).
>>>>
>>>
>>> As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has already
>>> been ported - and this mailing list is for discussion of development of
>>> the
>>> very Python, not about working on 3rd-party libraries.
>>>
>>
>> How about the email package?
>>
>
> Right, and there are other standard library modules (cgi, ftplib, nntplib,
> etc) that either need fixing or auditing as to how they handle bytes /
> strings.
>

Sure I will look into this. Could you please point me towards the
repository(I'd love it if I could use mercurial for the development process
rather than svn)?.


pk


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