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The PEPs in this repo are published automatically on the web athttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/. To learn more about the purpose ofPEPs and how to go about writing a PEP, please start reading at PEP 1(pep-0001.txt in this repo). Note that PEP 0, the index PEP, isnow automatically generated, and not committed to the repo.

Original PEP source may be written using two standard formats, amildly idiomatic plaintext format and the reStructuredText format(also, technically plaintext). These two formats are described inPEP 9 and PEP 12 respectively. Thepep2html.py processing andinstallation script knows how to produce the HTML for either PEPformat.

For processing reStructuredText format PEPs, you need the docutilspackage, which is available fromPyPI.If you have pip,pip install docutils should install it.

Do not commit changes with bad formatting. To check the formatting ofa PEP, use the Makefile. In particular, to generate HTML for PEP 999,your source code should be inpep-0999.txt and the HTML will begenerated topep-0999.html by the commandmake pep-0999.html.The default Make target generates HTML for all PEPs. If you don't haveMake, use thepep2html.py script.