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I'm not sure if this is controversial or not. It's ready to merge if people like it. ---- 📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-devguide--1343.org.readthedocs.build/

Discussing this pull request, it was uncontroversial that function signatures should include the slash or star as needed: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/121197/files ---- 📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-devguide--1344.org.readthedocs.build/

Prior discussion: - #1337 I opened PR #1337 since I was puzzled that we tell people how to configure and build CPython _before_ we tell them how to install third...

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The exception table format is described in https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/InternalDocs/exception_handling.md. ---- 📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-devguide--1334.org.readthedocs.build/

The current devguide [recommendations reads](https://devguide.python.org/documentation/markup/#inline-markup): > backquotes: \`\`text\`\` for code samples, variables, and literals. Earlier, I've been corrected to use double backticks when marking up literals. Example PR remark: -...

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**Describe the bug** https://devguide.python.org/documentation/devguide/ says: > Our devguide workflow uses continuous integration and deployment so changes to the devguide are normally published when the pull request is merged. Changes to...

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Let's document the method to build docs but only rebuild one or a few files like `make -C Doc html SOURCES=`, it can be much quicker than rebuilding the whole...

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guide-new content

I think that Alex summarized the issue pretty well: > In general our policy is currently not to add type hints to standard-library modules in the `Lib/` directory (there are...

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Hi python devguide maintainers, I wrote an extension that can compose multiple reStructuredText roles together. I learned from https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/11745#issuecomment-1888465545 that devguide might need this feature, I hope this PR can...

### Describe the bug Is there a reason we sometimes use three tabs (Linux and Mac separate) and sometimes use two ("Unix/MacOS" as one tab)? ### Screenshots _No response_ ###...

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