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The Python developer's guide
The CPython Developer's Guide
|ReadTheDocs| |Discourse| |Codestyle|
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This guide covers how to contribute to CPython. It is known by the nickname of "the devguide" by the Python core developers.
The official home of this guide is https://devguide.python.org.
Compilation
For the compilation of the devguide, you need to use a version of Python which
supports the venv
module, because the make html
command will create a
virtual environment and will install the Sphinx
package::
make html