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Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

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No repository files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the Linux, Windows, and macOS 64-bit build matrix and the existing CI configuration, then compare it with the PyPy download and preparation commands in the issue. Done means determining whether PyPy can be added without exceeding the matrix and confirming successful builds on the requested platforms.

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Description

Would a PR to add PyPy to the linux, windows and macos 64 bit platforms overflow the build matrix? If not, I could try to submit one.

something like

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads/pypy3.6-v7.1.1-linux64.tar.bz2 -o pypy.tar.bz2
mkdir -p pypy3
(cd pypy3; tar --strip-components=1 -xf ../pypy.tar.bz2)
export PATH=${PWD}/pypy3/bin:$PATH
echo "export PATH=${PWD}/pypy3/latest/bin:$PATH" >> $BASH_ENV
# Rebuild the _ssl module to accomodate for different openssl library
(cd pypy3/lib_pypy; pypy3 -c \
   'from _ssl_build import ffi; ffi.compile(verbose=False)' 2> /dev/null)
pypy3 -mensurepip

is what scipy uses to download and prep a pypy3 environment on circleci

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