Ideas for projects

[Phillip Bowden]

On 2004-12-08 21:47:49 -0600, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> said:

> Phillip Bowden <pbowden at stx.rr.com> writes:
> 
>> I feel that I've learned the language pretty well, but I'm having
>> trouble thinking of a medium to large project to start.  What are some
>> projects that you have written in the past with Python?
> 
> Why start with a medium to large project when you can do something
> beneficial to the Python community at large.
> 
> The most immediately useful thing to do is to follow the bugs link on
> the python home page, and look for bugs in the standard libraries. Add
> a test case to that libraries test code (lib/python2.X/test/...) to
> test for the bug, then try and fix it. When you've done that, add
> patches to the bug report.
> 
> That's not only useful, but you spend time working on code that is
> pythonic, so you'll learn how the language is used instead of just
> what the language is.
> 
>      <mike

I hadn't thought of that, that's a good idea.  Thank you.