stevendaprano

> python idle not working/opening Please describe what you did and what happened. Please be *precise*, it's not enough to say you tried "everything" and "still boom idle is not...

See also bpo-36566. (Thanks Cheryl.) I think the usability improvement for this far outweigh the decrease in security. The days where somebody looking over your shoulder watching you type your...

Re your point 1: what about *unknown* exceptions? The point of saying "in general, don't do this" is that it allows for the hypothetical existence of exceptions, without requiring that...

Thinking some more about this, it seems like the [documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html) doesn't do a great job of making it clear which (static) types are usable with `isinstance` and which are not....

I agree with you that the *particular* case of TypeVar can never be used with isinstance -- if there is an exception it is beyond my ability to find. However...

> This is the bug in python count() function. It is not a bug. The empty string matches 14 positions of your string: 1. An empty string matches before the...

This issue comes up fairly regularly and many people seem to be surprised by it. I think it might help for the docs to explicitly mention that the empty string...

Is there a good reason not to _always_ normalise the angle to the appropriate value between -180° and +180°, regardless of whether the turtle is visible or not? ``` import...

> for example showing sky with stars spinning around, All other processing stops while the turtle spins, so you cannot animate twenty stars by setting twenty turtles, then commanding each...