Lucas Partridge

In the [docs ](https://github.com/actions/setup-python/blob/main/docs/advanced-usage.md#windows) it says: > MSI installers are used when setting up Python on Windows. A word of caution as MSI installers update registry settings. > The 3.8...

I've now decided to abandon my attempts to get the self-hosted runner to run GitHub Actions on my Windows 10 laptop because: 1. I don't want any pre-existing versions of...

Thanks @dusan-trickovic! Ideally I would have found a way to work through all the problems to get setup-python and other actions working successfully on my laptop as hosted runners aren't...

+1 for this feature. It would be very handy to link directly back to the originating Jira issue (at least until the Jira server is shut down!). Thanks for the...

I was able to add a link to the Jira issue using the search-and-replace workaround suggested above. Frustratingly, however, the link that then appears in DevOps isn't clickable anyway! It's...

Thanks @Alexander-Hjelm; I didn't know that! However my DevOps admin installed the [Clickable Links](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MarkHawkes.clickable-link-control-extension&ssr=false#overview) extension; and I can confirm the link is then clickable. Other extensions are also available; e.g.,...

I notice a similar issue about undeterministic results at https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1533, albeit using pytest rather than unittest. @nedbat I apologise this issue doesn't have a minimal reproducible for you, but I...

Thanks @nedbat. We're using a context manager for `multiprocessing.Pool` in our code but not closing the code block like you suggest. We'll try updating our code as you advise and...

FYI Yes, making the changes you advised appears to give reliable coverage results now @nedbat - thanks!

Annoyingly, I've just noticed that these tests weren't setting a pseudo-random number seed. So some/all of the differences between OS and Python version may be due to differences in the...