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.. image:: https://github.com/python/cpython/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg?branch=main&event=push :alt: CPython build status on GitHub Actions :target: https://github.com/python/cpython/actions .. image:: https://dev.azure.com/python/cpython/apis/build/status/Azure%20Pipelines%20CI?branchName=main :alt: CPython build status on Azure DevOps :target: https://dev.azure.com/python/cpython/build/latest?definitionId=4&branchName=main .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/discourse-joinchat-brightgreen.svg :alt: Python Discourse chat :target: https://discuss.python.org/ Copyright © 2001 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved. See the end of this file for further copyright and license information. .. contents:: For more complete instructions on contributing to CPython development, see the Developer Guide. .. Developer Guide: https://devguide.python.org/ Installable Python kits, and information about using Python, are available at python.org. .. python.org: https://www.python.org/ On Unix, Linux, BSD, macOS, and Cygwin:: This will install Python as python3. You can pass many options to the configure script; run ./configure --help to find out more. On macOS case-insensitive file systems and on Cygwin, the executable is called python.exe; elsewhere it's just python. Building a complete Python installation requires the use of various additional third-party libraries, depending on your…

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  1. This is Python version 3.16.0 alpha 1+dev
  2. General Information
  3. Contributing to CPython
  4. Using Python
  5. Build Instructions
  6. What's New
  7. Documentation
  8. Testing
  9. Installing multiple versions
  10. Release Schedule
  11. Copyright and License Information

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The Python programming language

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