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We're always looking for new members to join us. Whether you're a new contributor or someone that's been around since the beginning, there are definitely ways you can help. Join Python SIG and: | We're always looking for new members to join us. Whether you're a new contributor or someone that's been around since the beginning, there are definitely ways you can help. Join Python SIG and: | ||
* Learn how to package new Python software | * Learn how to package new Python software | ||
* Work with teammates from the four corners of the world | * Work with teammates from the four corners of the world | ||
* Broaden your scope of working in open source communities and gain experience interacting in different areas | * Broaden your scope of working in open source communities and gain experience interacting in different areas | ||
* Build your portfolio by working on real-world projects | |||
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== Areas of contribution == | == Areas of contribution == |
Revision as of 17:48, 6 September 2016
Python Special Interest Group
Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language which emphasizes on code readability. Fedora loves Python and this SIG is for people who would like to see this relationship flourish. We aim to address the issues and tasks related to everything-Python on Fedora which includes:
- Packaging and optimizing the various Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes
- Packaging Python libraries and applications
- Setting and improving standards for packaging them as RPMs
- Maintaining Python packages for Fedora
and much more...
Communicate
Mailing lists
Address | Function |
---|---|
python-devel | General mailing list for all things Python related |
IRC
Address | Function |
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#fedora-python | Python SIG official channel |
Core Members
See SIGs/Python/Members_list for a list of our current core members.
Join Python SIG
We're always looking for new members to join us. Whether you're a new contributor or someone that's been around since the beginning, there are definitely ways you can help. Join Python SIG and:
- Learn how to package new Python software
- Work with teammates from the four corners of the world
- Broaden your scope of working in open source communities and gain experience interacting in different areas
- Build your portfolio by working on real-world projects
Areas of contribution
Packaging and maintaining Python applications
If you're just getting started with packaging Python modules for Fedora, here's some hints to get you started:
- The Fedora Packaging Guidelines must be followed for any package. The Python specific guidelines are a good starting point.
- You can generate a spec template for your new python package like this:
dnf install rpmdevtools && rpmdev-newspec -t python
That will generate a spec file template that is a good starting point to making your package. - When packaging PyPI project you can generate the initial SPEC file using pyp2rpm tool.
Python SIG FAS group
You can add group::python-sig to your package so the core members of the python-sig get notified on each bug in your Python program. This way it is possible to maintain all Python packages with the group permissions, which will simplify general Python cleanup changes.
If there is interest and shown familiarity with our guidelines and processes (which usually manifests in maintaining at least 5 to 10 Python packages) you can apply for having access to a broader group of packages that is commonly maintained. If you choose to apply for this, please discuss it with a sponsor of the python-sig. (You can find a list of those in FAS.)
The current list of packages maintained by the python-sig can be found at the package database.
Review Python packages
If you are one of the experienced Python packgers, you can help with the list of Python packages awaiting review.
- Bugzilla query for packages which have not passed review with "python" in the name or summary.
Porting to Python3
Currently there is an ongoing effort to port packages from Python 2 to Python 3, for the packages where upstream supports Python 3, so the package can provide either two subpackages for Python 2 and Python 3 respectively, or only the Python 3 version. This effort aims to completely shift to Python 3 before Python 2 retires in 2020.
Contributors interested in porting packages are encouraged to read the Python RPM Porting Guide
People who successfully port a number of packages are awarded the parselmouth badge, and a separate wiki page is maintained with contributor's names and the packages they ported: Python 3 Log
You can track the overall progress at Fedora Porting Database.
Upstream Release Schedules
Python Features
Future work
Under development (Fedora 26)
Older Changes
See the History of Python Changes
Toolbox
Python Runtimes
Within Fedora:
- The standard "CPython" implementation of Python 2python
- As above, for Python 3. There's a separate page detailing the status of building up a stack of pre-packaged Python 3 modulespython3
- Python 2 implementation on top of the Java virtual machinejython
andpypy
- An alternate Python interpreter (with a JIT-compiler) written in a subset of python, compiled to .c. 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.pypy3
Within EPEL:
- Python 2.6 stack for EPEL5, parallel-installable with the system Python 2.4 stackpython26
- Python 3.4 stack for EPEL7python34
Python Compilers
Within Fedora:
- Python-to-JavaScript compiler, implemented in Pythonpyjamas
- Python to C++ compiler (for a subset of Python with "implicit types")shedskin
Important Links
- Python website
- Python packaging Guidelines
- Packaging Python Eggs (outdated – needs update to
pip
& friends) - Python Patches – patches to
python2
andpython3
in Fedora and EL - Unicode in Python, Completely Demystified (somewhat outdated)