Updates from the Latest Python Sprint
By Leslie
Hawthorn, Open Source TeamGoogle was pleased to host last
week's
Python Sprint. From
August 22-25th, over twenty developers in
Mountain
View and
Chicago
came together to improve next generation Python, also known as
Python 3000 or Py3k. Many of the
participants got their initial taste of Python internals at the sprint.
There was a flurry of activity at the sprint, and over 100 changes were committed - about
five times the normal rate! The team got so much done that you can expect the first alpha
release of Py3k in a few days.
If you'd like to participate in Python
development or just learn more about the project, check out their
general developer's mailing
list or the
Py3k
development mailing list.
The Mountain View Python Sprint Team (starting with the back row, left to right): Larry
Hastings, Tom Waite, Ero Carrera, Guido van Rossum, Collin Winter, Bill Janssen, Yuri
Ginsburg, Thuon Chen, Christopher Burns, Keir Mierle, Neal Norwitz
(photo credit: Paul Dubois)
