So, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest is going quite well for Python, with about 25 additions/reworkings of core CPython documentation and tests and dozens of contributions to other projects.
One of the really unique opportunities that GHOP offers for the Python community is being underutilized, however, and that …
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My future colleague, Bill Punch at MSU, is teaching Python to intro CS students. He asks (slightly edited):
In C++, you can write multiple constructors, each one taking a different type and/or number of arguments. Let's say we are writing a RationalNumber class. I could write 2 constructors:
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If anyone is having a Python Interest Group meeting this month, please consider devoting 15-30 minutes to coming up with random task ideas for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest.
Briefly,
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- tasks must involve Python and Open Source;
- non-core pet projects are welcome;
- building screencasts, updating documentation, and adding unit …
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I'm going through some of my saved up e-mail from the last few months, and found these two gems.
Noah Gift on grokking threads, from the testing-in-python list:
Trying to understand what massive pools of threads that spawn other massive spools of threads, that spawn other massive pools of threads …read more
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Here are some factoids about the GHOP/Python project, from the end of the first 30 hours.
Of 63 tasks, 32 remain unclaimed.
26 tasks have been claimed by students and are being worked on; some of those are nearing completion.
5 have already been completed: all three Rosetta Code …
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Dear lazyweb,
I would like to be able to write Python code like the following:
page_obj = parse(html_code)
form_obj = page_obj.forms[0]
form_obj.my_name = 'bob'
form_obj.my_select.choose('option2')
new_html_code = page_obj.emit_html()
That is, we have an existing HTML form, and I would like to be able to parse it …
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In trying to pull together ~50 tasks for the initial Python part of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, I ran into some interesting issues.
First: it is not easy to find "easy" or "intro" tasks for projects.
I sent out a lot of e-mails and posted a blog request …
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