SIGs/Python

Python Special Interest Group

A SIG for people who are interested in Python on Fedora. This includes packaging and optimizing the various Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes (CPython, Jython), packaging libraries and applications, setting and improving standards for packaging them as RPMs and maintaining Python packages for Fedora.

Contact Info

Mailing List: [python-devel]
IRC: #fedora-python on irc.freenode.net

Members

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Tim Lauridsen
Paul Nasrat
Toshio Kuratomi
Tejas Dinkar
Aurelien Bompard
José Matos
Michel Salim
Alex Lancaster
Luke Macken
Christos Trochalakis
FelixSchwarz
Dave Malcolm: interested in core Python runtimes and low-level implementation details
Martin Bacovsky

Python packages awaiting review

• python-simplegeneric -- Simple generic functions (similar to Python's own len(), pickle.dump(), etc.)
• pypy - An alternate python interpreter written in a subset of python. The interpreter has better memory use than CPython and speed is closing in on Cpython. The JIT'd version is faster than CPython in many benchmarks. It is growing the ability to load CPython extension modules in the near future (work presently done on a branch).
• pynie - Python 3, on top of the Parrot virtual machine

Package requests

• Chandler PIM
• itools - A python library that includes several useful tools, such as an ODF anonymizer that can be used to sanitize confidential documents before attaching them tp bug reports
• Pyjamas web toolkit
• python-multiprocessing - multiprocessing backport useful for EL-5
• repoze.profile - WSGI profiling middleware
• tgscheduler - TurboGears scheduler

Links

Python website
Building Python packages
TurboGears
Packaging TurboGears Applications
Packaging Python Eggs
Unicode in Python, Completely Demystified

Upstream Release Schedules

Python 2.7

Python Features

Under development (Fedora 14?)

• debug versions of Python 2 and Python 3 in addition to the traditional optimized builds
• upgrade of the Python 2 stack to 2.7
• upgrade of the Python 3 stack to 3.2
• add PyPy to Fedora, possibly with a stack of extensions

Added in Fedora 13

• parallel-installable Python 3 stack
• gdb hooks to make it easier to debug Python and extension modules
• Systemtap probe points for tracing Python function calls

Added in Fedora 11

• upgrade of the Python 2 stack to 2.6

Added in Fedora 10

• created and packaged bindings for the FIPS-validated NSS cryptographic library

Python Runtimes

Within Fedora:

• python - The standard "CPython" implementation of Python 2
• python3 - As above, for Python 3
• jython - Python 2 implementation on top of the Java virtual machine

Awaiting review:

• pypy - An alternate python interpreter written in a subset of python
• pynie - Python 3, on top of the Parrot virtual machine
• pyjamas - Python-to-JavaScript compiler, implemented in Python

Awaiting packaging

• IronPython