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Expand Up @@ -343,6 +343,11 @@ C/C++ extensions
docstrings, and the Numpydoc format is well understood in the
scientific Python community.

* C/C++ code in the :file:`extern/` directory is vendored, and should be kept
close to upstream whenever possible. It can be modified to fix bugs or
implement new features only if the required changes cannot be made elsewhere
in the codebase. In particular, avoid making style fixes to it.

.. _keyword-argument-processing:

Keyword argument processing
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