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C bindings are bindings to C libraries, using cffi_ whenever possible.
-.. _cffi: http://cffi.readthedocs.org
+.. _cffi: https://cffi.readthedocs.org
Bindings live in :py:mod:`cryptography.hazmat.bindings`.
+When modifying the bindings you will need to recompile the C extensions to
+test the changes. This can be accomplished with ``pip install -e .`` in the
+project root. If you do not do this a ``RuntimeError`` will be raised.
+
Style guide
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