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Special Interest Groups

Many Python projects are organized around Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Each SIG tends to have a mailing list, and works on sub-projects related to Python. There are SIGs for database development, distribution and packaging, the email package, etc. Below are a list of SIGs along with links to their mailing list information and sub-pages used to coordinate development.

SIG name

Description

Distutils SIG (subscribe) (archives)

Works on packaging and distribution, Cheeseshop (PyPI), and related technologies

Email SIG (subscribe) (archives)

Works on developing Python's email package

Stdlib SIG (subscribe) (archives)

Work on improving the test suite and standard library for different implementations of Python

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