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The biggest thing PyPy adds is JIT compilation. This is precisely what the project to add JIT to CPython is working on these days. It's still early days for the project, but by 3.1…

That approach sometimes does work, but usually very poorly and often not at all. It can work very well when the higher-up is well informed and does have deep technical experience a…

> You can make meaningful statistical claims about this with just two subjects With just two subjects, there is a very high chance that the results of your testing are overly speci…

I'm very skeptical of these results: The sample size is much too small! They started with only 64 individuals. Of those only ONE was found to be especially attractive to mosquitoes…

For a specific doc fix, a PR is indeed the way to go. If it's not a simple fix, creating an issue on the tracker may also be called for. Doing so does help and is appreciated, even…

(I'm a Python core dev, speaking for myself.) Python is almost entirely developed and maintained by volunteers. The increasing backlog of issues and PRs is recognized as a problem.…

(Python core dev here.) At least for the Python project, there are more than enough inherent "roadblocks" for new contributors to overcome. Work is being actively done to remove so…

(Python core dev here.) Python is well into the process of transitioning from bugs.python.org to GitHub issues. See PEP 581[1] for the rationale. Ezio Melotti is leading the projec…

Author of fuzzysearch here. Most of these libraries focus on calculating distance metrics between pairs of strings, or finding the nearest match to a string among many candidates. …

Ah. You should likely use a different algorithmic approach. If you add contact details to your user info I'll be happy to get in touch and help.

Have you tried some existing Python libraries which support fuzzy searching, such as regex and fuzzysearch?

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