I was reading Hynek Schlawack’s excellent article on becoming a Python core developer and decided to find out just how hard it would be to get set up on my machine so that I could be ready to do core development myself, should I ever get the honor of being a part of the team. Since I run on Windows the most, I’m just going to talk about how I got set up for that OS. I’ve been thinking about trying to help with core development for a while anyway, so now’s as good a time as any. Let’s find out just how easy or hard the setting up process is! (more…)