Jay Parlar wrote: > I'm considering applying to be a student in this year's SoC, and the > AST code generation in particular looks interesting to me (listed > here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas/PythonCore). > > I was wondering a few things: > > 1) Who would most likely mentor this project? > 2) I've never worked in the core before (but have been using Python as > my primary language for about 6 years), so I'm wondering if the > potential mentor thinks it'd even be feasible for me to jump at a > project like this without prior knowledge. > > I'm interested in this project for two reasons. The first is that I'm > still trying to pick my PhD thesis, and I'm leaning in the direction > of automated code generation for embedded systems. I feel like working > on this project would at least push me one way or another in terms of > picking. I've done a major code generation tool before, but it was for > a problem domain I was already an "expert" in, so I didn't develop any > generic methods. > > Also, I've been wanting to contribute to Python core for awhile now, > and just haven't had the opportunity to get my feet wet with the code. > > Thanks, > Jay P. > _______________________________________________ > 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/python-python-dev%40m.gmane.org > FWIW, I've already implemented bytecode generation from AST, http://svn.brownspencer.com/pycompiler/branches/new_ast/ as I reported to this list previously. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069589.html
Cheers Michael Spencer _______________________________________________ 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
