On 11/1/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:35 AM 11/1/2005 -0500, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > >Every PyCon has featured a python-dev sprint. For the past few years, > >hacking on the AST branch has been a tradition, but we'll have to come > >up with something new for this year's conference (in Dallas Texas; > >sprints will be Monday Feb. 27 through Thursday March 2). > > > >According to Anthony's release plan, a first alpha of 2.5 would be > >released in March, hence after PyCon and the sprints. We should > >discuss possible tasks for a python-dev sprint. What could we do? > > * PEP 343 implementation ('with:') > * PEP 308 implementation ('x if y else z') > * A bytes type > > Or perhaps some of the things that have been waiting for the AST branch to > be finished, i.e.: > > * One of the "global variable speedup" PEPs > * Guido's instance variable speedup idea (LOAD_SELF_IVAR and > STORE_SELF_IVAR, see > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-February/019854.html)
I hope to attend the sprints this year, so i'd be around to help people get started and answer questions. With luck, I'll also be giving a technical presentation on the work at the main conference. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com