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== Python Special Interest Group ==
== Python Special Interest Group ==
A SIG for people who are interested in Python on Fedora. This includes
A SIG for people who are interested in Python on Fedora. This includes:
packaging and optimizing the various Python 2 and Python 3 [http://wiki.python.org/moin/implementation runtimes]
* packaging and optimizing the various Python 2 and Python 3 [[#Python_Runtimes|Python runtimes]]
([http://wiki.python.org/moin/CPython CPython], [http://www.jython.org/ Jython]), packaging libraries and applications, setting and improving [[Packaging:Python|standards for packaging them as RPMs]] and maintaining Python packages for Fedora.
* packaging Python libraries and applications
* setting and improving [[Packaging:Python|standards for packaging them as RPMs]]
* maintaining Python packages for Fedora


=== Contact Info ===
=== Contact Info ===
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[[MartinBacovsky| Martin Bacovsky]] <BR>
[[MartinBacovsky| Martin Bacovsky]] <BR>
[[User:Tomspur| Thomas Spura]] <BR>
[[User:Tomspur| Thomas Spura]] <BR>
[[User:topdog| Andrew Colin Kissa]] <BR>
[[User:potty | Abdel Martínez]] <BR>
[[User:lbazan | Luis Bazán]] <BR>
[[User:Bkabrda | Bohuslav Kabrda]] <BR>
[[User:Ramkrsna | Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla]] <BR>
[[User:Kushal | Kushal Das]] <BR>


=== Python packages awaiting review ===
=== Python packages awaiting review ===
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=== Package requests ===
=== Package requests ===
* [http://chandlerproject.org Chandler PIM]
* [http://chandlerproject.org Chandler PIM] - I don't think it is such hot idea ... upstream is pinning for the fjords, and after couple of years of non-development, it is not that advanced as it used to be.
* [http://www.hforge.org/itools/ 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
* [http://www.hforge.org/itools/ 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
* [http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/ python-multiprocessing] - multiprocessing backport useful for EL-5
* [http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/ python-multiprocessing] - multiprocessing backport useful for EL-5 [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716667 review request]
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.profile repoze.profile] - WSGI profiling middleware
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.profile repoze.profile] - WSGI profiling middleware
* [http://code.google.com/p/tgscheduler/ tgscheduler] - TurboGears scheduler
* [http://code.google.com/p/tgscheduler/ tgscheduler] - TurboGears scheduler
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=== Upstream Release Schedules ===
=== Upstream Release Schedules ===
[http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ Python 2.7]
[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0429/ Python 3.4]


=== Python Features ===
=== Python Features ===
==== Under development (Fedora 16?) ====
==== Future work ====
* [[Features/Python3ForCriticalComponents|port anaconda and yum to python 3]]
* [[Features/Python3ForCriticalComponents|port anaconda and yum to python 3]]
==== Under development (Fedora 15?) ====
* [[Features/DebugPythonStacks|debug versions of Python 2 and Python 3 in addition to the traditional optimized builds]]
* [[Features/DebugPythonStacks|debug versions of Python 2 and Python 3 in addition to the traditional optimized builds]]
* [[Features/Python_3.2|upgrade of the Python 3 stack to 3.2]]
* [[Features/PyPyStack|add PyPy to Fedora, possibly with a stack of extensions]]
* [[Features/PyPyStack|add PyPy to Fedora, possibly with a stack of extensions]]
* [[Features/JythonStack|add a stack of extensions to Jython, in RPM form]]
* [[Features/JythonStack|add a stack of extensions to Jython, in RPM form]]
* [[Features/PythonNamingDependingOnImplementation | Rename python packages to reflect python implementation in the name]]
==== Under development (Fedora 18) ====
* [[Features/Python_3.3|upgrade of the Python 3 stack to 3.3]]
==== Added in Fedora 17 ====
* [[Features/StaticAnalysisOfPythonRefcounts| further work on static analysis of refcounting]]
==== Added in Fedora 16 ====
* [[Features/GccPythonPlugin|GCC plugin embedding Python, for writing GCC extensions in Python]]
* [[Features/StaticAnalysisOfCPythonExtensions|Static analysis tool to detect common mistakes made in Python extension modules written in C]]
==== Added in Fedora 15 ====
* [[Features/Python_3.2|upgrade of the Python 3 stack to 3.2]]


==== Added in Fedora 14 ====
==== Added in Fedora 14 ====
* [[Features/Python_2.7|upgrade of the Python 2 stack to 2.7]]
* [[Features/Python_2.7|upgrade of the Python 2 stack to 2.7]]
* pypy was packaged, available prebuilt via rpm


==== Added in Fedora 13 ====
==== Added in Fedora 13 ====

Revision as of 03:53, 22 February 2013


Python Special Interest Group

A SIG for people who are interested in Python on Fedora. This includes:

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
Thomas Spura
Andrew Colin Kissa
Abdel Martínez
Luis Bazán
Bohuslav Kabrda
Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla
Kushal Das

Python packages awaiting review

Package requests

  • Chandler PIM - I don't think it is such hot idea ... upstream is pinning for the fjords, and after couple of years of non-development, it is not that advanced as it used to be.
  • 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
  • python-multiprocessing - multiprocessing backport useful for EL-5 review request
  • repoze.profile - WSGI profiling middleware
  • tgscheduler - TurboGears scheduler

Links

Python website
Building Python packages
TurboGears
Packaging TurboGears Applications
Packaging Python Eggs
Parallel installable Python26 information (mainly EPEL5).
Unicode in Python, Completely Demystified

Upstream Release Schedules

Python 3.4

Python Features

Future work

Under development (Fedora 18)

Added in Fedora 17

Added in Fedora 16

Added in Fedora 15

Added in Fedora 14

Added in Fedora 13

Added in Fedora 11

Added in Fedora 10

Stalled features

Python Runtimes

Within Fedora:

Within EPEL:


Awaiting review:

Awaiting packaging

Python Compilers

Within Fedora:

  • Package-x-generic-16.pngpyjamas - Python-to-JavaScript compiler, implemented in Python
  • Package-x-generic-16.pngshedskin - Python to C++ compiler (for a subset of Python with "implicit types")