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The Python developer's guide

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Merged PRs (30d): 12

Dominant language: Python
License: CC0-1.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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85 open issues indexed

Devguide recommends a very slow testing configuration Open

type-feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

python/devguide#1895 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Feature: Document SELinux bind-mount note for local devcontainer usage Open

type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

python/devguide#1879 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Split Backporting into "policy" and "guide" Open

topic-dev process topic-pull requests type-refactor

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

python/devguide#1831 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Clarify issue/PR choreography Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

python/devguide#1815 · 8 comments · Opened May 28, 2026
Create a Threat Model and Security Policy for CPython Open

topic-psrt type-feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1803 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 15, 2026
Audit accessibility of the devguide Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

python/devguide#1792 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Feature: Add Homebrew as a way to get build dependencies installed on Linux Open

type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

python/devguide#1791 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Task: Add windows instructions for translations when CPython files move Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1783 · Opened Apr 16, 2026
`make dist-pdf` doesn't work, had to use different method Open

topic-documentation type-bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

python/devguide#1836 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 12, 2026
Feature: Clarify that docs issues typically don't get version labels Open

topic-triage type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

python/devguide#1674 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 28, 2025
Feature: Add guide to install system dependencies with pixi Open

topic-building python type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#1669 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Feature: Cover licenses in `translation/coordinating.rst` Open

topic-documentation type-feature

python/devguide#1623 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Feature: Add instructions about JIT builds Open

topic-building python type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

python/devguide#1620 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 2, 2025
Enhancement: Unclear description of how to become a triager Open

topic-triage type-bug

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

python/devguide#1594 · Opened Jun 30, 2025
Add version requirements to the translation section of the dev guide Open

topic-documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1586 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 20, 2025
Feature: Enhance the visibility of the "Update branch button" section Open

topic-pull requests type-feature

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#1527 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2025
Feature: Add a list of downstream contacts Open

topic-triage type-feature

python/devguide#1482 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 17, 2024
Feature: Document that we have Docs Analytics using Plausible Open

topic-documentation type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

python/devguide#1479 · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 10, 2024
Document the workflow for deprecating something in CPython. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1419 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Extension modules - update MSVC for standalone module Open

type-feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#1394 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2024
Add a section for etiquette when creating PRs, when multiple people wants to create the PR for the same issue Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1389 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2024
Define and document a procedure for following up on reviews Open

type-feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1359 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2024
Improvements to Lifecycle of a pull request Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1358 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 19, 2024
Promote how to install dependencies Open

type-bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/devguide#1338 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2024
Clarify when to mark up numeric literals Open

needs: decision topic-documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#1312 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 24, 2024
Clarify usage of type hints in the standard-library modules Open

topic-dev process topic-stdlib type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

python/devguide#1304 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 8, 2024
Document how to add a bytecode specialization Open

good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

python/devguide#1286 · 11 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2024
Guide for using RR with CPython Open

type-feature

python/devguide#1283 · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Argument Clinic: add reference for the DSL Open

type-feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#1270 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Argument Clinic: add reference for all directives Open

type-feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1269 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Argument Clinic: add reference for the return converter class Open

type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

python/devguide#1268 · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Document how to cross compile CPython Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1258 · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Argument clinic: outdated tutorial Open

topic-dev process type-bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#1253 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 21, 2023
Add more examples to the NEWS/What's New docs Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

python/devguide#1243 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 7, 2023
Update test command on dev guide landing page Open

needs: decision topic-test type-bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

python/devguide#1171 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2023
Argument Clinic How-To needs more examples Open

type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/devguide#1190 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2023
Consolidate guidance on prompts in interactive code examples Open

help wanted topic-documentation type-bug type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

python/devguide#1135 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2023
Add discussion of doctesting interactive code examples. Open

topic-documentation topic-test type-feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1134 · Opened Jul 13, 2023
Clarify where docs fixes can be backported Open

needs: decision type-bug type-feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#1069 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2023
Documenting minimizing diffs for ease of review Open

needs: decision type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#1018 · 12 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jan 1, 2023
Fix links to missing CPython files Open

help wanted type-bug

python/devguide#1003 · 6 comments · 3 assignees · Opened Dec 9, 2022
Add micro (pre-)release dates to JSON and as tables Open

infra topic-versions type-feature

python/devguide#999 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 6, 2022
Add the other dev phase dates to Status of Python versions Open

infra topic-versions type-feature

python/devguide#998 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 6, 2022
Improve PR review checklist Open

topic-pull requests topic-triage type-bug type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

python/devguide#962 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 7, 2022
Update developer guide about C code coverage Open

topic-test type-feature

python/devguide#940 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Improve the "Making Good PRs" section Open

good first issue type-bug type-feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/devguide#931 · 14 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2022
Add information how to deal with incorporation external code (license, credits) Open

topic-dev process type-feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/devguide#928 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2022
Clarify best practices with ref target labels in docs Open

topic-documentation type-feature

python/devguide#927 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 3, 2022
reST Primer duplicates the Sphinx version; should link to it instead Open

type-bug type-feature

python/devguide#1000 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 31, 2022
Add a workflow to regularly run `make linkcheck` Open

infra type-feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

python/devguide#917 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 14, 2022

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