[Python-Dev] Documenting [C]Python's Internals

[Michael Foord]

On 19/05/2010 23:13, Yaniv Aknin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to let python-dev know about a series of articles about 
> CPython's internals I'm publishing under the collective title "Guido's 
> Python"* (http://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/guidos-python/). Three 
> articles already were published already, more are planned (mainly 
> focused on CPython/py3k, but comparisons with other implementations 
> may also be covered; we'll see). So far I've done an 
> introduction/whirlwind tour of Py_Main and a two-article in-depth 
> review of the (new-style) object system.

Whether or not they become part of the Python documentation I have very 
much enjoyed and appreciated this series of blog entries. I still covet 
the ability to contribute to Python in C and these articles are a great 
introduction to the underlying Python interpreter and object system.

Please continue!

All the best,

Michael Foord

>
> I'm sharing this with you (and hope you care) due to three reasons, 
> probably in escalating importance:
> (a) Maybe some of python-dev's readers would be interested (possibly 
> the newer and more silent members).
>
> (b) Maybe my scales are wrong, but I was a bit surprised by the number 
> of readers (>20,000 in the past two weeks); I wouldn't want to mislead 
> such a reader base and would be happy if a veteran here would be 
> interested in aiding by technically proofing the material (shan't be 
> too hard I hope, feel free to contact me directly if qualified and 
> interested).
>
> (c) While the content is currently geared to be blog-oriented, if it's 
> found worthy by the group I'd be delighted to formulate it into 
> something more 'reference-material-ish' and give it back to the 
> community. I found no centrally organized CPython-internals material 
> other than bits and pieces (descrintro, eclectic blog posts, lectures, 
> C-API reference, etc), and I hope maybe something like this could be 
> featured more officially on python.org <http://python.org>, with the 
> relevant 'this is subject to change' disclaimers (can be a document 
> for new contributors, for pure Python programmers who're just 
> interested, or for whatever we decide).
>
> Questions? Comments?
>  - Yaniv
>
> * think "Tim Berners-Lee's Web" or "Keanu Reeves' Green Gibberish", 
> see the first post for details
>
>
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