PyConDC 2004 Core Sprint plan

Some ideas:

• Complete the implementation of Generator Expressions
• Add a module of statistical and reduction functions: stddev, average, nlargest, nsmallest, product, etc.
• Complete the Decimal module
• Reduce python's start-up time.
• Python bug fixing sprint
• PythonASTSprint -- finish the new compiler on the ast-branch -- this should be a top priority because the project has been open for so long.
• Examine optimizations proposed by Neal Norwitz and Michael Hudson
  • + Add 2 custom op-codes for CALL_FUNCTION where the number of arguments is known in advance + Have the interpreter just handle code strings instead of arbitrary
    • objects with a file interface (all large systems are paying a cost for an unused small system feature)
• Add 'diff3' and 'patch' to difflib
• Unify doctest's two approaches to finding test cases.
• Documentation sprint
  • + People liked the examples in the docs for unittest, sets, and itertools. Apply that model to other parts of the docs. For instance, the email and logging packages would be a lot easier to use if there were a semi-comprehensive example section in the docs. + document the smtpd module + document the platform module
• Improve the byte code optimizer. Several new transformations can be added after checking for basic blocks and if the jump targets can be fixed up when the total number of bytes changes. Also, the line numbering has to be kept intact during the transformations.
• Update, pare-down, and clean-up Demo and Tools/Scripts
• Guido to practice throwing pies.

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