[New-bugs-announce] [issue33522] Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>:

We have been provided with https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython and a measure of build machines to help us run continuous integration builds. The benefits are more reliable builds (especially Mac and Windows) and higher parallelism than our current services.

My PR adds the build definition files and fixes some test bugs to ensure we can successfully test on this platform. There are a few more manual steps to make it work against our repo, which we will do immediately after merging the changes.

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assignee: steve.dower
components: Build, Tests
messages: 316677
nosy: brett.cannon, steve.dower
priority: normal
pull_requests: 6539
severity: normal
status: open
title: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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