CPython

Introduction

The CPython Github repo is the repo for CPython, which is the reference implementation for the Python programming language, written in C and Python. As someone that uses Python for solving a lot of problems in various environments, the CPython repo is one of my most visited Github repositories.

Pros

• Whenever one finds the official Python docs to be insufficient, they can head to the relevant file in the CPython repo to find out how a certain method is implemented.
• CPython developers make sure to add in-line documentation to further explain the behavior of methods, whenever they feel that it is necessary. This makes it very easy to understand what's going on.
• The repo uses a very detailed labelling system for issues. Therefore, it is very easy to categorize issues simply by choosing the relevant labels.

Cons

• As CPython is one of the most widely-used programming language implementations in the world, maintainers of the repo have to be very strict about issue-tracking. Therefore, inexperienced users may find it difficult to understand what's going on when they look at the content of certain issues.

Written by Eren Donmez