On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:34:18PM +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 19/10/2015 20:53, Alex Kleider wrote:
> >Are there any "starter level" PyPi projects the maintainer of which > >might consider a novice collaborator? I would have assumed that > >such an animal doesn't exist. > > > >I do appreciate the advice. > How about https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-mentorship ? While core-mentorship is open to all, it is intended "for developers interested in contributing to core Python development", which means that the intent is to teach *experienced* programmers how to deal with the specific indiosyncracies of the CPython code base and development process. It's also quite low volume. Have a read of: https://docs.python.org/devguide/ particularly the FAQs and see if it looks like something you can handle. I emphasis that you don't need core-mentorship in order to provide patches for issues on the Python bug tracker. You could dip your toe in the water by finding some easy issues and submitting patches, even just doc patches: http://bugs.python.org Personally, what worked for me (although at the cost of many, many hours over the years!) was reading and discussing other people's code, here and on comp.lang.python (also available via email, python-l...@python.org), reading the standard library code to see how it works, and especially reading the recipes in the Python Cookbook (O'Reilly Books) and ActiveState: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ although sometimes the quality is a bit mixed. Even the top-rated recipes are not immune to this: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/top/ (although generally anything by Raymond Hettinger is almost guaranteed to be amazing). For example, I just came across a top-rated recipe for dependency injection which doesn't actually implement dependency injection. (That's a good trick, since dependency injection is *trivially* easy in Python.) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
