Guido van Rossum | 3d67fee | 1994-08-17 12:33:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | (-) systematically create /usr/local/lib/python/<machine>-<os>/ |
| 3 | subdirectories, with a lib/ subdirectory containing the lib*.a |
| 4 | files etc. |
| 5 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | (-) need newer DOS binary (16 bit version doesn't do default args) |
| 7 | |
| 8 | (-) support for dynamically loadable libraries in makesetup and Extensions. |
| 9 | e.g. add a make rule to build .so files (unfortunately need to figure |
| 10 | out what ld option is needed) (more appropriate for makesetup |
| 11 | script?) |
| 12 | |
| 13 | (-) Move tkinter into the standard Modules directory; Tkinter c.s. to |
| 14 | Lib/tkinter etc. (???) |
| 15 | |
| 16 | (-) document Tk |
| 17 | |
| 18 | (-) class browser |
| 19 | |
| 20 | (-) interactive Python GUI (a la NT thingie) |
| 21 | |
| 22 | (-) speedup finddfa (and classify?) |
| 23 | |
| 24 | (-) more stuff under CVS (demo, extensions) |
| 25 | |
| 26 | (-) Mac port of 1.1 |
| 27 | |
| 28 | (-) Mac port of STDWIN 0.9.9 to THINK C 6.0 |
| 29 | |
Guido van Rossum | 3d67fee | 1994-08-17 12:33:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | (-) use const for char * parameters (and many more) where possible |
| 31 | |
| 32 | (-) The Great Renaming! |
| 33 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | (-) redo __xxx__ operators for class instances |
| 35 | |
| 36 | (-) document __getattr__, __setattr__ |
| 37 | |
| 38 | (-) add __delattr__ to class instances |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | |
| 40 | (-) many things that take strings should also take arrays of chars |
| 41 | |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | (-) add list of existing extensions to FAQ |
| 43 | |
| 44 | (-) update "recent additions" chapter in tutorial |
| 45 | |
| 46 | (-) rewrite "output formatting" chapter in tutorial |
| 47 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | (*) pass OPT from environment via configure to Makefile |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | (*) version.c should be recompiled for each link |
| 51 | |
| 52 | (*) stropmodule should export find/rfind instead of index/rindex |
| 53 | |
| 54 | (*) add __getattr__, __setattr__ to class instances |
| 55 | |
| 56 | (*) fix pow(x, y, z) for integers |
| 57 | |
| 58 | (*) add tuple(seq) to turn any sequence into a tuple |
| 59 | |
| 60 | (*) Win32s for PC |
| 61 | |
| 62 | (*) integrate NT changes |
| 63 | |
| 64 | (*) write a script and add a "Make" rule (perhaps) that changes |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | #!/usr/local/bin/python to something else in all scripts around. |
| 66 | |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | (*) int*int overflow check shouldn't doubles on alpha (cf. John Tromp's mail) |
| 68 | |
| 69 | (*) add signal.alarm() |
| 70 | |
| 71 | (*) when abort()ing because of unexpected exception, print a message |
| 72 | first (Jack) |
| 73 | |
| 74 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 75 | (from BUGS1.0.1) |
| 76 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | (-) document addpack, urllib, ... |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | |
| 79 | (*) import.c from JaapV |
| 80 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | (*) document os.exec* |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | (*) name sunaudiodevmodule.c is too long |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | |
| 85 | (*) play with / include SUIT interface |
| 86 | |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | (-) make regsub.[g]sub() optionally case insensitive |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | ====================================================================== |
| 90 | |
| 91 | (*) ought to use features from autoconf 1.8 |
| 92 | |
| 93 | (*) errors in __repr__() are handled wrong when called from format |
| 94 | |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 95 | (*) long(0x80000000) has wrong value! |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | (-) hex(0x80000000) shouldn't have sign (?) |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | |
| 99 | (*) need way to set buffering at file open time |
| 100 | |
| 101 | (*) need way to force stdout unbuffered |
| 102 | |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | (*) restart CVS tree |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | |
| 105 | (?) build shared libs for SunOS 4.1.3 |
| 106 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | (-) dynamic linking on the Mac (is this a dream?) |
Guido van Rossum | 433c8ad | 1994-08-01 12:07:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | |
| 109 | (*) X patches from Adrian Phillips |
| 110 | |
| 111 | (*) Jaap's freeze script |
| 112 | |
| 113 | Incorporate with contrib status: |
| 114 | - additions to glmodule by rg3h |
| 115 | (*) Jaap's posixfile module (with locking) |
| 116 | (*) pthreads interface |
| 117 | |
| 118 | Later: |
| 119 | - put the offending object in IOError and posix.error |
| 120 | - make module marshal work with user-defined file-like objects |
| 121 | - built-in help? |
| 122 | - hierarchical module names? |
| 123 | |
| 124 | Big plans: |
| 125 | |
| 126 | - allow separate interpreters (a la Xt's Applocation Contexts, and Tcl) |
| 127 | - great renaming |
| 128 | - complete reflexive nature of the language, e.g. have interfaces et |
| 129 | create any kind of object |
| 130 | (*) GUI interface a la Tk |
| 131 | |
| 132 | |
| 133 | ====================================================================== |
| 134 | For FAQ: |
| 135 | |
| 136 | (*) why don't strings (numbers, tuples, ...) have methods / attributes |
| 137 | |
| 138 | (*) why are strings / numbers / tuples immutable |
| 139 | |
| 140 | why don't list methods return self |
| 141 | |
| 142 | ====================================================================== |
| 143 | PM/TODO list after Egypt (from mailing list): |
| 144 | |
| 145 | make .pyc files executable (how?) |
| 146 | |
| 147 | thread status and improvements (lock stmt; signal/wait) |
| 148 | |
| 149 | optional optimizations |
| 150 | |
| 151 | pthread migration |
| 152 | |
| 153 | (*) test/incorporate new SUIT |
| 154 | |
| 155 | shorten excessively long filenames (sunaudiodevmodule.c) |
| 156 | |
| 157 | (*) default parameter values |
| 158 | |
| 159 | multiple interpreter objects |
| 160 | |
| 161 | (*) import shlib bug (irix5.2) (reload, dlclose) |
| 162 | |
| 163 | (*) addpack.py |
| 164 | |
| 165 | (*) newmodule.c (or other hacks to create new modules, classes, functions |
| 166 | etc. from their components) |
| 167 | |
| 168 | persistency |
| 169 | |
| 170 | new Dbhash.py, dbhash library |
| 171 | |
| 172 | reraise; or raise 3rd param for traceback? |
| 173 | -or- except type, value, tbackobjec |
| 174 | |
| 175 | redesign exceptions from scratch? |
| 176 | |
| 177 | dbm objects miss items(), values() methods |
| 178 | |
| 179 | (*) jar's new profile |
| 180 | |
| 181 | answer q about coerce() |
| 182 | |
| 183 | (*) reconsider pass [expression] ??? -or- don't print non-interactive |
| 184 | exprs -or- option to suppress printing non-None expressions |
| 185 | |
| 186 | (*) should be able to hash code objs (add fns to convert between lists/tuples) |
| 187 | |
| 188 | describe() ? |
| 189 | |
| 190 | distribute demo2 with Holmes |
| 191 | |
| 192 | (*) re-reply on try-continue |
| 193 | |
| 194 | classes are too slow |
| 195 | |
| 196 | add += etc. ? |
| 197 | |
| 198 | optimize tuple = tuple |
| 199 | |
| 200 | allow (a, b) = [1, 2] and [1, 2] = (1, 2) ??? |
| 201 | |
| 202 | wustl is not un the northwest of the US? |
| 203 | |
| 204 | (*) MPW doesn't like \000 in string literals? |
| 205 | |
| 206 | MPW patches, unixemu patches |
| 207 | |
| 208 | prepare tar files with |
| 209 | - mac think projects (*) |
| 210 | - mpw makefiles |
| 211 | - dos makefiles |
| 212 | - mac unixemu lib |
| 213 | |
| 214 | explain rules about == vs. 'is' for strings (* by others on the list) |
| 215 | |
| 216 | (*) bug in ceval.c DELETE_FAST |
| 217 | |
| 218 | (*) possible optimize LOAD_NAME -> LOAD_GLOBAL |
| 219 | |
| 220 | get dos python with suit (inesc) |
| 221 | |
| 222 | (*) docs for try/continue are wrong and unclear |
| 223 | |
| 224 | better hashing fn? |
| 225 | |
| 226 | (*) add improved nested indent to python-mode.el |
| 227 | |
| 228 | (*) add a section to tutorial on "new" features |
| 229 | |
| 230 | rewrite section on formatting in tutorial |
| 231 | |
| 232 | ====================================================================== |
| 233 | TODO-TOO list: |
| 234 | |
| 235 | test for overflow when converting python long to float |
| 236 | |
| 237 | lift restrictions on tuple or list in many cases |
| 238 | |
| 239 | (*) allow long ints with sensible values for getargs "i" |
| 240 | |
| 241 | (*) multiline string literals |
| 242 | |
| 243 | what to do about 64-bit int literals (on 64-bit machines) in .pyc |
| 244 | files? (Currently truncated w/o warning!) |
| 245 | |
| 246 | DOCUMENTATION UPDATE! E.g. ref.tex doesn't describe: |
| 247 | (*) - line joins w/o backslash |
| 248 | (*) - double-quoted strings; \" in strings |
| 249 | - more? |
| 250 | Should double-check all changes with docs! |
| 251 | |
| 252 | (?) Interrupting output still sometimes doesn't call clearerr() properly |
| 253 | |
| 254 | sometimes ghost errors when interrupting during debugging in |
| 255 | 'continue' mode? |
| 256 | |
| 257 | typing a comment to a primary prompt shouldn't issue a secondary prompt |
| 258 | |
| 259 | readline: add hooks to recognize Python syntax and to expand Python |
| 260 | commands and names |
| 261 | |
| 262 | should have absolute pathnames in function objects |
| 263 | |
| 264 | in general check that all the exceptions are modernized and that the |
| 265 | messages aren't giving the same error twice (e.g., stdwinmodule.c!) |
| 266 | |
| 267 | - check read/write allowed for file objects |
| 268 | |
| 269 | - introduce macros to set/inspect errno for syscalls, to support things |
| 270 | like getoserr() |
| 271 | |
| 272 | ====================================================================== |
| 273 | DOS/Windows Python |
| 274 | |
| 275 | (???) command line options? |
| 276 | |
| 277 | (*) os.system() |
| 278 | |
| 279 | (???) interrupts |
| 280 | |
| 281 | (???) wrap |
| 282 | |
| 283 | (*) pc module |
| 284 | |
| 285 | (*) dospath.py |
| 286 | |
| 287 | DOS/Windows Python -- TO DO |
| 288 | |
| 289 | (*) memtest from config.h |
| 290 | |
| 291 | (*) copy sources back |
| 292 | |
| 293 | (*) build DOS version |
| 294 | |
| 295 | (*) distribute 386 version |
| 296 | |
| 297 | (*) Mac 1.0.1 release? |
| 298 | ====================================================================== |