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Project Overview |
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The project, titled 'GRPC Python compatibility support', involved |
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collaborating with the GRPC team to improve the library compatibility |
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for the GRPC Python library. |
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Python is, originally, a specification for a programming language. This |
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specification has been implemented differently in different |
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implementations of the [language specification](https://docs.python.org/3/reference/). |
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A small, and by no means exhaustive, list of some major python implementations |
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is: |
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- [CPython](https://www.python.org/): The reference implementation |
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- [Jython](http://www.jython.org/): Python implemented in Java |
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- [Python for .NET](http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/): CPython implementation that enables .NET library usage |
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- [IronPython](http://ironpython.net/): Python implemented in .NET |
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- [PyPy](http://pypy.org/): Python implemented completely in Python |
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- [Stackless](https://bitbucket.org/stackless-dev/stackless/wiki/Home): Replaces the dependency for the C call stack with it's own stack |
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The development in this project revolved around |
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introducing changes to the codebase that enable support for latest |
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stable as well as development releases of the reference implementation |
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(CPython) of the Python programming language namely `Python 3.4`, |
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`Python 3.5`,and `Python 3.6` as well as the stable releases of the |
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PyPy implementation. Special changes were required to enable PyPy |
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support because PyPy has a non-deterministic garbage collector that does |
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not rely on reference counting unlike the CPython garbage collector. |
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The changes to the codebase involved changes to the library code as well |
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as changes to the tests and scripts in the test infrastructure which |
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resulted in both the library as well as the testing infrastructure being |
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Python 3.x and PyPy compatible. |
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The list of merged commits, as of 22.08.2016 23:59 CEST, is summarized |
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here for the perusal of those interested: |
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- [Enable py35 and py36 testing](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/c478214e475e103c5cdf477f0adc18bba2c03903) |
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- [Make testing toolchain python 3.x compliant](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/0589e533cd65a2ca9e0e610cc1b284d016986572) |
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- [Add .idea folder to .gitignore](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/365ef40947e22b5438a63f123679ae9a5474c47c) |
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- [Fix the ThreadPoolExecutor: max_workers can't be 0](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/de84d566b8fad6808e5263a25a17fa231cb5713c) |
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- [Add PyPy to testing toolchain](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/2135a1b557f8b992186d5317cb767ac4dbcdfe5c) |
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- [Switch init/shutdown: lib-wide -> per-object](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/9eedb4ffd74aed8d246a07f8007960b2bc167f55) |
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- [Skip test run if running with pypy](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/f0f58e68738abbc317f7f449c5104f7fbbff26bd) |
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The list of unmerged pull requests is as follows: |
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- [Add PyPy 5.3.1 to dockerfile and template](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/7763) |
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- [remove skipIf from TypeSmokeTest (issue 7672)](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/7831) |
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The list of tasks that have pending unsubmitted pull requests is as follows: |
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- Modify run_tests.py to enable testing of new languages without |
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affecting old branches. |
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Project Details |
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=============== |
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- Title: GRPC Python compatibility support |
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- Student: [Siddharth Shukla](https://github.com/thunderboltsid) |
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- Mentors: [Nathaniel Manista](https://github.com/nathanielmanistaatgoogle), [Masood Malekghassemi](https://github.com/soltanmm) |
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- Duration: May 23 - August 23 |
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- Hat tip: [Ken Payson](https://github.com/kpayson64), [Jan Tattermusch](https://github.com/jtattermusch), [Nicolas Noble](https://github.com/nicolasnoble) |
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