Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-12 Thread Steve Holden
On 9/7/2010 10:15 AM, Michael Foord wrote: On 07/09/2010 15:02, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-12 Thread Steve Holden
On 9/7/2010 11:37 AM, R. David Murray wrote: On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:34:49 +0400, Oleg Broytman p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:02:59PM -, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has

[Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Prashant Kumar
Hi everyone, 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Oleg Broytman
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread exarkun
On 01:33 pm, p...@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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Oleg Broytman p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: -- GUI frameworks, especially wxPython. That would be very cool, but the practicality of it will depend on how current the version of SWIG used in wxPython's build process happens to be. A version of wxPython built around

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Michael Foord
On 07/09/2010 15:02, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:02:59PM -, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has already been ported How about the email package? What about email? It is a core library, right? It has been ported

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Prashant Kumar
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.ukwrote: On 07/09/2010 15:02, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread exarkun
On 02:34 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:02:59PM -, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has already been ported How about the email package? What about email? It is a core

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Éric Araujo
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)?. Core developers still use Subversion (we’re in the process of switching), but you can clone the mirror at

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:12:26 +0530 Prashant Kumar contactprashan...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:34:49 +0400, Oleg Broytman p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:02:59PM -, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has already been ported How about the email

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/7/2010 10:15 AM, Michael Foord wrote: 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. If you wanted to help with the documentation of the stdlib, one thing that needs to be done is

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:58:41PM -, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 02:34 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:02:59PM -, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:33 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer help with porting

2010-09-07 Thread Prashant Kumar
Other interesting bugs: http://bugs.python.org/issue7962 http://bugs.python.org/issue8077 Thanks, I will look into these bugs and see if I can fix them. Maybe you can post a call on python-list and form a small group of py3k porters. I have already mailed the python-list ML and am