Python Developer's Guide Python's Developer Guide can be found at https://devguide.python.org/. The pieces of documentation hosted here are: PEPs (Python …

This guide is a comprehensive resource for contributing to Python – for both new and experienced contributors. It is maintained by the same community that maintains Python.

Experienced programmers in any other language can pick up Python very quickly, and beginners find the clean syntax and indentation structure easy to learn. Whet your appetite with our …

For a concise step by step summary of building Python on Windows, you can read Victor Stinner’s guide. All supported versions of Python can be built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or …

Using the dev container directly Using the pre-built container image Building yourself Fixing “easy” issues (and beyond) Git bootcamp and cheat sheet Forking CPython GitHub repository …

Feb 1, 2025 · This PEP describes a scheme for identifying versions of Python software distributions, and declaring dependencies on particular versions.

Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal …

Sep 16, 2023 · The files in python3-dev are for the python3 that debian packages. Since you have built python3.11 for yourself you also have all the files for the dev from the source kit.

This is part of a Draft of the Python Contributor’s Guide. Text in square brackets are notes about content to fill in. Currently, the devguide and this new Contributor’s Guide co-exist in the repo.

python-dev used to be used as the main mailing list for developing Python, with practically all core developers subscribed to it. It has since been put into read-only mode.