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Some project ideas that might work for Google's summer of code Some project ideas that might work for Google's summer of code. The Python folks have very good advice for submitting proposals here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode

Google Summer of Code

Some project ideas that might work for Google's summer of code. The Python folks have very good advice for submitting proposals here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode

Help System

Note: This started as a weblog post from Brian Zimmer (His weblog disappeared a long time ago, but I dug it up again through the magic of the wayback machine.

One of the best features of Python IMHO is the help() function. It’s the first place I turn if I need help before I open a web browser and read the docs.

I think it would be cool if we could do this:

>>> from java.lang import String
>>> help(String)

and see the full Javadoc documentation in help format.

I think a cool project would be to create a system that could turn source code comments into a format that the Jython help system could consume (perhaps with a Doclet if you have the source -- this will become especially nice for Sun's newly GPL'ed version) in the case of classes not already exposed with the special __doc string mechanism available in Jython already.

This could be facilitated with an xdoclet like framework which when ran over a source file would produce something Jython could use at runtime. This would either be a cached file or a Java class in a special namespace. For example, if you have class a.b.c.D then maybe the class a.b.c.D_doc might have the document source available through reflection.

Of course, help() is not currently working at all in Jython -- so the first step would be to figure out why this is and fix it. Also, we need a strategy for getting the help documentation from CPython into our new style classes.

SummerOfCode (last edited 2012-01-21 02:13:50 by SkipMontanaro)