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Contributing

Issues

A good issue includes a short, self contained, correct example of the problem, something like:

assert github.Github().get_user("jacquev6").name == "Vincent Jacques"

It is even better if you provide the debug logs associated with your issue. Enable them with github.enable_console_debug_logging and copy them in the body of the issue. Warning: you may want to remove some private information (authentication information is removed, but there may be private stuff in the messages)

If for any reason you are not able to do that, open your issue anyway and a maintainer will see what is needed to solve your problem.

Pull Requests

Pull Requests should clearly describe two things:

  1. The problem they attempt to solve
  2. How the author went about solving the problem

Ideally, changes should be made in logical commits and tests added to improve the project's coverage of the GitHub API.

Adding missing attributes for a GithubObject

$ python scripts/add_attribute.py [class_name] [attribute_name] [attribute_type]

# For example, if you want to add a `url` attribute of string type to the Commit class
# Note: adding multiple attributes you have to run the script multiple times

$ python scripts/add_attribute.py Commit url string

Deprecation warning

Before removing attributes/methods, consider adding deprecation warnings instead. The Deprecated packages provides a handy decorator to add deprecation warnings with an optional reason.

from deprecated import deprecated

@property
@deprecated
def rate(self):
   pass
   
@deprecated(reason="Deprecated in favor of the new branch protection")
def get_protected_branch(self):
   pass

Automated tests

You can run the tests through python -m github.tests. Run a specific test with python -m github.tests TestCase or python -m github.tests TestCase.testMethod.

If you add a new test, for example Issue139.testCompletion, you must add an import in github/tests/AllTests.py. Then, you have to run python -m github.tests Issue139.testCompletion --record to create the github/tests/ReplayData/*.txt files needed for your new test. Check them and commit them as well. You will need a GithubCredentials.py file at the root of the project with the following contents:

login = "my_login"
password = "my_password"
oauth_token = "my_token"  # Can be left empty if not used

If you use 2 factor authentication on your Github account, tests that require a login/password authentication will fail. You can use python -m github.tests Issue139.testCompletion --record --auth_with_token to use the oauth_token field specified in GithubCredentials.py when recording a unit test interaction. Note that the password = "" (empty string is ok) must still be present in GithubCredentials.py to run the tests even when the --auth_with_token arg is used. (Also note that if you record your test data with --auth_with_token then you also need to be in token authentication mode when running the test. A simple alternative it to replace token private_token_removed with Basic login_and_password_removed in all your newly generated ReplayData files.)

To run manual tests with external scripts that use the PyGithub package, you can install your development version with:

pip install --editable path/to/project

Coding conventions

PyGithub follows pep8 Style Guide for Python Code except for line length. Please check your code with pep8 Python style guide checker, by running pep8 --ignore=E501 github.

Build documentation locally

Note: only Python 2 is supported as of now

pip install -r requirements.txt
sphinx-build doc build