Possible Topics

• Implementing PEPs
  • PEP 328 absolute/relative import
  • PEP 343 implementation ('with:')
  • PEP 308 implementation ('x if y else z')
  • PEP 302 suggestions (fix pydoc and traceback printing to support zipfiles, implement sys.meta_path objects for built-in, frozen, and sys.path importers; search for "phase 2" in the PEP for other ideas)

  • any other PEPs Guido might OK @ PyCon (PEP 352, etc.)

• AST work
  • export AST to Python
    • Basic pychecker functionality
  • rewrite peepholer to use AST instead of modifying bytecode directly (where applicable)
  • Finish work on ast-objects branch
• Patch/bug processing
  • Incorporate PEP content into the LaTeX docs

  • Bugs to look at: 777884 (needs ruling from an XML/minidom maintainer)

  • Patches to look at: 686545 (mailbox modification -- SoC-supported work)

  • Bugs/patches left over from last Bug Day (PythonBugDayStatus)

  • BuildBot-discovered bugs (http://wiki.python.org/moin/BuildBot and http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/)

• Build
  • Rewrite setup.py (for simplification and easier customization)

• Implement __index__() (see "str with base" thread on python-dev in January)

• Hash out bytes type
• Implement final decision on outputting integers in different bases
• rewrite setup.py

Attendees

• Brett Cannon