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We have a section in the developer guide specifically on proposing changes to the standard library: http://cpython-devguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/stdlibchanges.html One of the alternatives to standard library additions that frequently needs to be...

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Moved from https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/55174

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Every once in a while someone adds a new extension module to the stdlib. How to do so isn't very clear, particularly regarding all the cross-platform bits. I suppose nobody...

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I used hg share a lot to share a single hg clone between multiple working directories. It's convenient to have a lean copy for each branch of Python (2.7, 3.5,...

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The issue title seems trivial, but in practice there are many traps. See for example: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2851/files Adding a new test directory requires to modify Makefile.pre.in and PCbuild/lib.pyproj.

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During my recent experience nominating someone for commit privileges, I ran into some friction attempting to follow the guidance. This change addresses that friction. - Allow the audience to be...

In https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/93823#issuecomment-1156152572 @erlend-aasland wrote a checklist about reviewing PRs. In https://github.com/python/devguide/pull/914#issuecomment-1207257987, I suggested: > SGTM -- that's a nice list. I think it would be easier to add it in...

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This PR adds a role to link to GitHub files (in the `python/cpython` repo) and uses them in `internals/parser.rst`. * Fixes #960

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Add [Open Graph metadata](https://ogp.me/) using https://github.com/wpilibsuite/sphinxext-opengraph.