Hi, I'd like to propose a two housecleaning GSoC ideas for discussion, they both need mentors. First, Mark's suggested overhaul of the struct module, along with finishing PEP 3118 if possible. Second, a clean up of the socket module, along with checking its usage in the stdlib if possible. Details below.
IIUC, any potential mentors for ideas from http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas would help the PSF by declaring availability at http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009. And, mentioned in another thread, snakebite ideas: http://tinyurl.com/beyond-buildbot :) Regards, Daniel --- Overhaul struct + PEP 3118 There are many open issues for the struct module, and a suggestion that many others fixes should happen. The problems include inconsistencies in input handling and backwards-compatibility code that should be gone from 3.x. As PEP 3118 also requires a few changes in struct, finishing the memoryview object implementation and backporting it to 2.7 could be part of this project. To tackle this, a student should know C and have some familiarity with the CPython codebase. The proposal should include an overview of open issues and, if possible, of problems in current code. Mentors for this task should have a good understanding of the struct module, the buffer interface and PEP 3118. --- Clean up and improve the socket module The socket module is the foundation of many important parts of the stdlib. It has many open issues and RFEs, with many more being indirectly dependent on it. Major pain areas are cross-platform problems, shortcomings for a few use cases and some missing bits from the API (e.g. recvall(), sendmsg() and recvmsg()). If these can be solved quickly, going through the uses of the socket module in the stdlib to would make this project even more useful. This project has some ugly cross-platform needs, but these can be handled by the student and the mentor together (maybe snakebite could help?). For students wanting to work on this, knowing C is a must, being familiar with CPython and the stdlib would be desirable. Having some prior knowledge of POSIX and Windows interfaces the socket module uses would be a nice perk. Mentors should be able to help the student to test their code on many different platforms. Knowing the socket API in different platforms would be desirable. _______________________________________________ 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
