About Core Python

Core Python encompasses projects that affect the core infrastructure, libraries and CPython.

Getting Started

The website to help you get started in Core Python development is http://pythonmentors.com/.

Contact info

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Ideas

Core Python is hoping to have some CPython and infrastructure projects in 2016, but they're still being discussed by the mentors. We'll update this page soon when our plans have gelled more!

1. Roundup

• Project description: Work on Roundup, http://bugs.python.org/ to improve github integration, etc.

• Skills: python, git

• Difficulty level: Intermediate

• Related Readings/Links: https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/core-mentorship/2016-February/003422.html

• Potential mentors: Terry, David, Stephen

2. A gui (tkinter) front end for pip

• Project description: Many users are not familiar with the command line and thus find difficulties using and accessing PIP. This project would involve creating interactive menus to help guide new users through the process of installing packages using PIP. https://bugs.python.org/issue23551 contains preliminary design ideas.

Such a visual tool would be extremely useful, and I would make it accessible from IDLE. Once a basic version were written, the additional feature set for the project could be adjusted to fit the time remaining.

• Skills: python, usability, pip

• Difficulty level: Intermediate

• Related Readings/Links: https://bugs.python.org/issue23551

• Potential mentors: Terry, ??

3. Project number 3

• Project description:

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• Difficulty level: Easy/Intermediate/Hard

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• Potential mentors: