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Got it. I missed that. As for cache info I use info about caches in other contexts to make sure my intuitions about caching the output of a function was...

Any progress on this? I just started to experiment with Prophet in an existing application which spits out HTML to stdout. All this business about log joing probabilities and Hessians...

Thanks for the quick response @PCManticore. I thought it very strange that it would barf on such a basic thing, but couldn't make it go away. I've attached the traceback....

@PCManticore Is there anything I can do to help debug this problem?

I've now tried with three different versions of Python 1. /usr/bin/python3 - 3.7.5 2. Miniconda Python - 3.8.1 3. 3.9.0a5+ - running from my git checkou Note that the attached...

This was simpler than I anticipated. I tweaked /home/skip/miniconda3/envs/python38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/checkers/base.py to print the node to stderr. The infinite recursion seems to be triggered in the assert statement at the very end...

Good that you can reproduce it and great that you were able to offer a workaround. Edit: One last followup from me on this. I eventually eliminated the opcodes module...

Thanks @mdickinson. That suggests that I should do a bit more tweaking of both the text and the examples in my PR.

I think some consensus seems to have been reached in [this thread](https://discuss.python.org/t/what-should-default-machine-parameters-be-in-docs/20747/8). In particular, most examples should be explicit in their layout definitions. @cameron-simpson's suggestion sums things up nicely: >...

As I'm working through some examples (and trying to update the documentation text), I find myself confused by some of the behavior. Consider these four similar `struct.pack()` examples (on an...