Auto merge of #136000 - matthiaskrgr:rollup-j6ge32r, r=matthiaskrgr

Rollup of 6 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #135873 (coverage: Prepare for upcoming changes to counter creation)
 - #135926 (Implement `needs-subprocess` directive, and cleanup a bunch of tests to use `needs-{subprocess,threads}`)
 - #135950 (Tidy Python improvements)
 - #135956 (Make `Vec::pop_if` a bit more presentable)
 - #135966 ([AIX] Allow different sized load and store in `tests/assembly/powerpc64-struct-abi.rs`)
 - #135983 (Doc difference between extend and extend_from_slice)

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`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup

src/conventions.md

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ pass the <!-- date-check: nov 2022 --> `--edition=2021` argument yourself when c
 `rustfmt` directly.
 
 [fmt]: https://github.com/rust-dev-tools/fmt-rfcs
+
 [`rustfmt`]:https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt
 
 ## Formatting C++ code
@@ -40,6 +41,26 @@ When modifying that code, use this command to format it:
 This uses a pinned version of `clang-format`, to avoid relying on the local
 environment.
 
+## Formatting and linting Python code
+
+The Rust repository contains quite a lof of Python code. We try to keep
+it both linted and formatted by the [ruff][ruff] tool.
+
+When modifying Python code, use this command to format it:
+```sh
+./x test tidy --extra-checks=py:fmt --bless
+```
+
+and the following command to run lints:
+```sh
+./x test tidy --extra-checks=py:lint
+```
+
+This uses a pinned version of `ruff`, to avoid relying on the local
+environment.
+
+[ruff]: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
+
 <a id="copyright"></a>
 
 <!-- REUSE-IgnoreStart -->
@@ -165,4 +186,5 @@ to the compiler.
   crate-related, often the spelling is changed to `krate`.
 
 [tcx]: ./ty.md
+
 [crates]: ./crates-io.md

src/tests/directives.md

@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ settings:
 - `needs-rust-lld` — ignores if the rust lld support is not enabled (`rust.lld =
   true` in `config.toml`)
 - `needs-threads` — ignores if the target does not have threading support
+- `needs-subprocess`  — ignores if the target does not have subprocess support
 - `needs-symlink` — ignores if the target does not support symlinks. This can be
   the case on Windows if the developer did not enable privileged symlink
   permissions.