Paul Moore

Document how to get started without paying for API access

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The getting started documentation suggests getting an API key in order to start using the tool. While that may be the best approach for significant levels of usage, it's off-putting...

An option to start a local index proxy when running pip

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### What's the problem this feature will solve? Many problems people have with index server handling (such as index priority, dependency confusion attacks, filtering available package releases by age, etc)...

[Windows] New REPL does not preserve history between sessions

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# Bug report ### Bug description: I have downloaded Python 3.13.0, Windows 64 bit version from python.org. I have done nothing to customise it. I start Python. type "12" at...

Add a guide to creating a native Windows application in Python

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Based on the discussion [here](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-to-create-a-window-command-line-application-and-its-installer-from-wheels/76136) and @zooba's blog post [here](https://stevedower.id.au/blog/build-a-python-app). ---- 📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://python-packaging-user-guide--1778.org.readthedocs.build/en/1778/

Should we have a policy on AI-submitted pull requests?

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### What's the problem this feature will solve? Prompted by the discussion in https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/13393, I'd like to suggest that pip adds an official policy on AI-generated pull requests. Note that...

In "choose a new issue type", selecting "Blank issue" goes back to the "choose an issue type" page

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### Description As it says in the title - if you select "Blank issue (maintainers only)", you don't get a blank issue, you get the "pick an issue type" page...

Deprecate legacy `setup.py bdist_wheel` mechanism for building projects

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_Last updated on April 27, 2025_. ## What's being deprecated? ```text DEPRECATION: Building 'version_pkg' using the legacy setup.py bdist_wheel mechanism, which will be removed in a future version. pip 25.3...

Don't tie pyupgrade changes to dropping of support for a Python version

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See https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/13185#issuecomment-2676394666 and following comments for background. Currently, we include ruff's "pyupgrade" rules in our default configuration. This means that any code which doesn't follow those rules will fail our...

Possible to create a corrupt wheel using force-include

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If I include the following in my `pyproject.toml`: ``` [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel.force-include] "my_datafile" = "bla_pkg-0.1.0.dist-info/METADATA" ``` hatchling will create *two* metadata files in the wheel, one of which is the "correct" one,...

Completions registered with `pip completion` don't work when pip is invoked differently

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### Description The `pip completion` command is supposed to create a script that will register completions for pip. However, the command does not take into account the fact that pip...