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		js2 on March 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in di... I’ve contributed code to a handful of open source projects. Learning how to do that is also a worthwhile (and sometimes humbling) experience. I haven’t contributed to Python but it has an entire guide for how to do so, which already puts it above many projects: http://devguide.python.org/ The CPython API is as straight-forward as any I’ve seen. So my original comment still stands. :-)

mixmastamyk on March 8, 2019 [–]

I agree it is quite worthwhile. However, it will take longer than expected for a new person, and most of have obligations.

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