Author: Antonio Cuni <[email protected]>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4829:b08894b78490
Date: 2012-09-26 11:43 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/b08894b78490/
Log: various updates as hinted on IRC
diff --git a/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
b/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
--- a/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
+++ b/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
@@ -5,19 +5,19 @@
can work on thanks to all of the people who donated_ to the `py3k proposal`_.
The coolest news is not about what we did in the past weeks, but what we will
-do in the next: I am pleased to announce that Philip Jenvey has been selected
-to be funded for his upcoming work on py3k, thanks to your generous
-donations. He will start to work on it shortly, and he will surely help the
-branch to make faster progress. I am also particularly happy of this because
-Philip is the first non-core developer who is getting paid with donations: he
-demonstrated over the past months to be able to work effectively on PyPy, and
-so we were happy to approve his application for the job. This means that
-everyone can be potentially selected in the future, the only strict
-requirement is prove to be able to work on PyPy by contributing to the
-project.
+do in the next: I am pleased to announce that `Philip Jenvey`_ has been
+selected by the PyPy communitiy to be funded for his upcoming work on py3k,
+thanks to your generous donations. He will start to work on it shortly, and he
+will surely help the branch to make faster progress. I am also particularly
+happy of this because Philip is the first non-core developer who is getting
+paid with donations: he demonstrated over the past months to be able to work
+effectively on PyPy, and so we were happy to approve his application for the
+job. This means that anyone can potentially be selected in the future, the
+only strict requirement is to have a deep interest in working on PyPy and to
+prove to be able to do so by contributing to the project.
Back to the status of the branch. Most of the work since the last status
-update has been done in the area of, guess what?, unicode strings. As usual,
+update has been done in the area of, guess what? Unicode strings. As usual,
this is one of the most important changes between Python 2 and Python 3, so
it's not surprising. The biggest news is that now PyPy internally supports
unicode identifiers (such as names of variables, functions, attributes, etc.),
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
Before the latest changes, you used to get question marks instead of the
proper name for the keyword argument. Although this might seem like a small
detail, it is a big step towards a proper working Python 3 interpreter and it
-required a couple days of headaches. A spin-off of this work is that now
+required a couple of days of headaches. A spin-off of this work is that now
RPython has better built-in support for unicode (also in the default branch):
for example, it now supports unicode string formatting (using the percent
operator) and the methods ``.encode/.decode('utf-8')``.
@@ -48,12 +48,13 @@
tests to 3.2, to mark those which are implementation details and should not be
run on PyPy.
-Finally, I would like to thanks Amaury and Ariel Ben-Yehuda for his work on
-the branch; among other things, Amaury recently worked on ``cpyext`` and on
-the PyPy ``_cffi_backend``, while Ariel submitted a patch to implement `PEP
-3138`.
+Finally, I would like to thank Amaury Forgeot d'Arc and Ariel Ben-Yehuda for
+their work on the branch; among other things, Amaury recently worked on
+``cpyext`` and on the PyPy ``_cffi_backend``, while Ariel submitted a patch to
+implement `PEP 3138`.
.. _donated:
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/py3k-and-numpy-first-stage-thanks-to.html
.. _`py3k proposal`: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html
.. _`py3k branch`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/py3k
.. _`PEP 3138`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3138/
+.. _`Philip Jenvey`: https://twitter.com/pjenvey
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