[Tutor] Need suggestions on how to join a Python project.

[Terry Carroll]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, hcohen2 wrote:

> I know the standard method: propose patches to existing code.  That 
> usually takes a considerable period of time and a skill level I have not 
> yet obtained.

Not necessarily.  Try using a program you like and then think of what 
you'd like to have in it.

In my case, I was using nntplib, and found that I wished it had an option 
to return newsgroup headers to a file, rather than in memory (sometimes 
there can be a *lot* of headers).  I modified nntplib to acept a File 
parameter, and now it's part of Python 2.3.

(In fairness, all the heavy lifting was done by a previous developer who 
put in similar support, but only for the NNTP BODY command; I just 
extended it to the other NNTP commands, which turned out to be amazingly 
simple, given the prior work.)

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Terry Carroll
Santa Clara, CA
carroll at tjc.com
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