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Expand Up @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ clinic A preprocessor for CPython C files in order to automate

freeze Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program.

ftscalingbench Benchmarks for free-threading and finding bottlenecks.

gdb Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to
debug Python itself (by David Malcolm).

Expand All @@ -26,6 +28,12 @@ i18n Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py

importbench A set of micro-benchmarks for various import scenarios.

inspection Tooling for PEP-678 "Safe external debugger interface for CPython".

jit Tooling for building the JIT.

lockbench Benchmarks for PyMutex and critical sections.
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Nope, because these are micro-benchmarks for very specific use-cases, basically not user-facing ones, but ones used for development.

We have many existing ones already. From time to time they are getting removed.
But, anyway I am just describing what exists right now, we can start a new discussion about removing some things from there.


msi Support for packaging Python as an MSI package on Windows.

nuget Files for the NuGet package manager for .NET.
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ssl Scripts to generate ssl_data.h from OpenSSL sources, and run
tests against multiple installations of OpenSSL and LibreSSL.

tsan Utilities for building CPython with thread-sanitizer.

tz A script to dump timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo.

unicode Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
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