Python wishlist

Core Python 2 flaws.

• locals() returns a variable that can be updated at any moment (and changes behavior under trace function)
• internal representation of .py file paths is not normalized (comparisons and identity checks are impossible)

• -*- coding -*- header is not used as default encoding when transforming string literals in the source file

• can not modify variables in outer scope (see nonlocal from Python 3)

Missing features of community development process.

• +1 on mailing list posts, on tracker comments and bugs
• personal roadmaps listing features people find important and work on
• de-facto roadmap for the next Python version - Trac milestones

• real-time activity feed for https://bugs.python.org/

  • activity by module, by version
• tracker fixes
  • 'action item' issue type
  • everybody should be able to add/remove blockers
  • 'reply' link for each message to track threads

• monthly mailing list FAQ (status) posts on busy mailing lists .

  • contain the most updated info on list topic
  • encourage replies with fixes
  • encourage collaborative roadmaps

PEP process improvements.

• credit contributors, and not only authors as rereading and validating the spec requires time too

• reduce formalism on who can participate

• accept edits as patches (create online editor)

• build list of contributors with Mercurial

Ideas:

• Normalized Python
• Iterative Development Process
• Language for humans should help them save time for most frequent operations
• Replace pipes with channels for subprocess (rotated queue of strings)

Component wishlist

Public domain or MIT preferred.

• wikify - micro-framework for text wikification (easy to extend and debug) (1, 2)

  • [ ] describe the "conflicting replacements" (idempotency) problem what the wikify solves
  • split text by regexp, process matched, exclude processed
  • run the next regexp on the list of text that is left
  • reassemble
• treeworks - tools to work with 2D data structures (trees), including common visualization and debugging

Skill credits for readers of this page

Welcomed open source art:

• 3D robot nut in Blender for rirror on Bitbucket
• 128x128 wikify logo on Bitbucket

• Logo for web.py

GSoC/Help needed for tools that support Python development:

• complete module-2-source tree map at https://bitbucket.org/techtonik/python-stdlib

  • this will allow to track changes in repository on a module level
  • this will allow to find out where a file belongs to

• steal twisted highscores - https://twistedmatrix.com/highscores/

  • and Subversion crediting - https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#crediting

steAm and SMArt

• https://devinvenable.blogspot.com/2009/12/creating-digital-synth-sounds-using.html

• https://devinvenable.blogspot.com/2010/07/opengl-intellivision-man.html

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