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The CPython Developer's Guide

This guide covers how to contribute to CPython. It is known by the nickname of "the devguide" by the Python core team.

The official home of this guide is https://devguide.python.org.

Render HTML

To render the devguide to HTML under _build/html, run:

make html

To render the devguide to HTML, and open the result in a browser, run:

make htmlview

To maintain a live view of edits as they are saved, run:

make htmllive

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