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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion CONTRIBUTING.md
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Expand Up @@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ hard-linked extension modules, and the builtins. The `VERSIONS` file lists
the versions of Python where the module is available.

We accept changes for future versions of Python after the first beta for that
version was released.
version was released. We drop support for a Python version three months
after it reaches [end-of-life](https://devguide.python.org/versions/). This
means that we will no longer actively test the stubs against that version.
After six months, we will remove the stubs for that version and start
to use syntax and typing features not supported by that version.

### Third-party library stubs

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Expand Up @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ the project the stubs are for, but instead report them here to typeshed.**
Further documentation on stub files, typeshed, and Python's typing system in
general, can also be found at https://typing.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

Typeshed supports Python versions 3.8 and up.
Typeshed supports Python versions 3.8 to 3.13.

## Using

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