Four of the guys from Pythonlabs are going to be at the sprint on plan on sprint on *something*. This is all being led by Guido, but he is busy and has no specific ideas of what to sprint on. If you have any, please list them below.

• Close as many bugs on SF as possible.

• Implement one of the namespace speed-up PEPs ([http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0266.html 266], [http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0267.html 267], or [http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0280.html 280]) or anything else to help prevent Guido from getting a pie in the face. =)

• My pet bug is reliable signal handling when using event loops like PyGTK. I think an extra C-level hook in the core would make it possible to do this right. (At the moment, SIGINT/KeyboardInterrupt is blocked until python regains control). I'd be interested in participating in an effort to fix this one. - PyConBrianWarner

• Free threading (which has been asked for almost as long as namespace speed-ups - Thomas Wouters)

• Work on the AST branch (will make Jeremy happy =)
• Fix rexec. (I happen to think it has potential and is worth saving). - Brian Warner
• Fully document classes, both classic and new-style

• make _p_changed=1 after changing a list or a dictionary unnecessary (ZODB) - Thomas Guettler <guettli@thomas-guettler.de>

• Implement CALL_ATTR to speed up method calling

• Make the profiler support threads, coverage analysis, option C extension functions and builtins, and generally work better. - Nick Bastin <nbastin@opnet.com> (Investigating the current status of HotShot - last worked on profiler in 2.2)

• Implement a new I/O library

• Start work on new sockets interface as mentioned by Guido on python-dev (email at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-March/034042.html )

Sprinters so far:

• Guido van Rossum (coach)
• Jeremy Hylton
• Tim Peters
• Brett Cannon
• Ka-Ping Yee
• Thomas Wouters
• Neil Schemenauer
• Aahz
• Neal Norwitz
• Nick Bastin

Projects chosen so far:

• CALL_ATTR (Thomas, Brett)
• speed up new-class instance attribute lookup using a cache (Ping, Aahz)
• AST branch (Jeremy, Tim, Neil)

A summary of the speedup sprint work is in my blog: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4396 --Guido

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