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How to use your project & Travis to help test Python itself

Feb 28, 2017 4 min read project management

One of the hardest parts of doing a new release of CPython is getting people to test it before the final release goes out. While CPython has a test suite and we try

My experience with type hints and mypy

Jan 20, 2017 3 min read project management

The CLA bot for the PSF [https://github.com/python/the-knights-who-say-ni] is designed defensively because if the bot accidentally lets a pull request through from someone that has not signed the CLA that

Network protocols, sans I/O

Aug 7, 2016 2 min read project management

Back in February I started taking a serious look at asynchronous I/O thanks to async/await. One of the things that led to me to looking into this area was when I

The history behind the decision to move Python to GitHub

Jan 13, 2016 9 min read project management

I asked on Twitter if people would be interested [https://twitter.com/brettsky/status/687053299204272128] in having me write down the history behind my decision to choose GitHub for Python's future

Python 3 support on PyPI

Jun 12, 2015 7 min read project management

At (and since) PyCon 2015 [https://us.pycon.org/2015/], there has been interest in trying to get quantified numbers in relation to Python 3 adoption (see PyPI download numbers [https://caremad.io/