[Python-ideas] Documenting Python warts on Stack Overflow

[Jasper St. Pierre]

We already have a collection of "warts" or "gotchas":

http://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html#why-must-dictionary-keys-be-immutable
http://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-list-sort-return-the-sorted-list
http://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html#why-are-default-values-shared-between-objects
http://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html#why-can-t-raw-strings-r-strings-end-with-a-backslash

and so on. Note that that document is probably extremely out of date, but
there is an existing place for them.


On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 7:10 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am thinking about [python-wart] on SO. There is no currently a list of
> Python warts, and building a better language is impossible without a clear
> visibility of warts in current implementations.
>
> Why Roundup doesn't work ATM.
> - warts are lost among other "won't fix" and "works for me" issues
> - no way to edit description to make it more clear
> - no voting/stars to percieve how important is this issue
> - no comment/noise filtering
> and the most valuable
> - there is no query to list warts sorted by popularity to explore other
> time-consuming areas of Python you are not aware of, but which can popup
> one day
>
> SO at least allows:
> + voting
> + community wiki edits
> + useful comment upvoting
> + sorted lists
> + user editable tags (adding new warts is easy)
>
> This post is a result of facing with numerous locals/settrace/exec issues
> that are closed on tracker. I also have my own list of other issues
> (logging/subprocess) at GC project, which I might be unable to maintain in
> future. There is also some undocumented stuff (subprocess deadlocks) that
> I'm investigating, but don't have time for a write-up. So I'd rather move
> this somewhere where it could be updated.
> --
> anatoly t.
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