Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote: > Hello all, > > First a comment on-thread: > I can't wait to get an ordered dictionary in the stdlib! The > discussion regarding suggestions for the name appears to be ongoing. > What about the name 'orderdict' instead of 'ordereddict'?. It doesn't > contain the double-d, is slightly shorter, and I think a little more > typo-friendly. Just my 2c, please feel free to ignore. OrderDict would > of course be the alternative-casing version. > > Secondly, regarding this list: > I couldn't find a lot of documentation regarding list culture, so I'm > quite nervous about the potential for stepping in where I'm not welcome > before I have spent a lot of time 'spinning up' on this issues of this > list. I am interested in learning more about how Python is written and, > if I can, providing some assistance to that task. However it's going to > be a long, slow process for me. At the same time, I do have firsthand > knowledge of how hard it can be to get people to contribute to anything > to any degree, and as such don't want to be a part of the problem by > being too tentative in introducing myself. > > I would appreciate any pointers regarding what is appreciated on this > list and what is not. Hopefully, over time I will be able to make some > form of useful, concrete code contributions in the form of patches or > documentation, but I do realise it will take a lot of hands-on learning > first. Trying to grok the discussions on this list seems like a big part > of that. > Just dive in. We'll savage you when you get out of line :^).
Seriously, as long as it's about development *of* rather than *with* Python, you should be OK. A couple of weeks lurking (or reading the list history) will tell you most things you need to know. regards Steve takes-all-sorts-to-make-a-world-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
