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A selection of sample python programs is in the [Snippets](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/blob/master/Snippets/) directory.
### Testing
You can use [pytest](http://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/) to run the test suite:
```sh
pip install pytest
py.test
```
We also use [tox](https://testrun.org/tox/latest/) to automatically test on different Python versions in isolated virtual environments.
```sh
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
tox
```
### Development Community
TTX/FontTools development is ongoing in an active community of developers, that includes professional developers employed at major software corporations and type foundries as well as hobbyists.