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Code examples for the Alexa Python Development: Build and Deploy an Alexa Skill tutorial (update publishing Oct 24). Files live in the alexa-python-skill/ top-level folder, named after the article slug.

The tutorial's code blocks are incremental edits to the Alexa-hosted Hello World template, so instead of per-block fragments this folder ships the finished skill:

• lambda_function.py: the complete Joke Bot backend with all of the tutorial's changes applied. The template's # type: comments are converted to real annotations.
• interaction_model/en-US.json: the interaction model, with the joke bot invocation and the JokeIntent sample utterances, ready to paste into the console's JSON Editor.
• requirements.txt: ask-sdk-core==1.19.0.

Verified locally by running every handler against simulated Alexa requests (Launch, JokeIntent, HelloWorld, Help, Stop, an unknown intent, SessionEnded). It passes ruff format --check and ruff check with the repo's pinned Ruff 0.14.1.

This folder will back a dedicated sample-code opt-in for the tutorial, replacing the shared speech recognition one.

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