[issue38438] argparse "usage" overly-complex with nargs="*"

Nick Timkovich added the comment: The `[arg [arg ...]]` feels a bit more formal to me, and I might prefer it in the example shown where the arg name is fairly short. That said, `man mv` shows something like: mv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY mv

[issue38046] Can't use sort_keys in json.dumps with mismatched types

Change by Nick Timkovich : -- components: +Library (Lib) title: JSON sorting type error -> Can't use sort_keys in json.dumps with mismatched types versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue38046] JSON sorting type error

Nick Timkovich added the comment: It's not clear what you suggest, but it is likely better to alert the user that their keys have mismatched types than to suppress it by default. Perhaps alongside the `sort_keys` argument, you would like a parameter that gets passed into `sorted()` when

[issue37968] Add a turtle module function to draw a circle centered at the turtle

Nick Timkovich added the comment: To clarify, there is an "ARC" command in Logo that draws a circle/circle segment *centered on* the turtle. Reference: http://fmslogo.sourceforge.net/manual/command-arc.html Examples: https://personal.utdallas.edu/~veerasam/logo/ That command

[issue37969] urllib.parse functions reporting false equivalent URIs

Nick Timkovich added the comment: Looking at the history, the line in the docs used to say > ... (for example, an empty query (the draft states that these are equivalent). which was changed to "the RFC" in April 2006 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ad5

[issue37968] The turtle

Nick Timkovich added the comment: Resolving #1 as you suggest is next to impossible. Python can not deduce if you meant to call the function or just refer to its name. Admittedly, the latter is strange in non-interactive contexts, but it is valid. #2, as far as I can tell Logo had an ARC

[issue37968] The turtle

Nick Timkovich added the comment: Regarding #1: In Python, you may refer to a variable's name (e.g. `rt`, which is a function), which often has no effect in a script. In the REPL (where you see >>>) it is useful to inspect the object: >>> turtle.rt In order to call

[issue26834] Add truncated SHA512/224 and SHA512/256

Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> added the comment: Was this patch mostly ready to go? The additional SHA512 variants are appealing because they run ~40% faster than SHA256 on 64-bit hardware for longer messages. -- nosy: +nic

[issue27337] 3.6.0a2 tarball has weird paths

Nick Timkovich added the comment: In pyenv this was "fixed" by pointing to the .tar.xz archive instead of the .tgz https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv/pull/652, maybe you could implement that for Pythonz? -- nosy: +nicktimko -ned.deily, petere

[issue20820] HTML being escaped on some release pages

New submission from Nick Timkovich: On a random trip through Python's past I noticed the new site is escaping HTML on some older version release notes: * http://www.python.org/download/releases/1.6/ * http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.0/ * http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.1

[issue20693] Sidebar scrolls down 2x as fast as page content

New submission from Nick Timkovich: When scrolling down in the Python 3.4 docs (e.g. http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/index.html ) the Sphinx sidebar's top value increases twice as fast as the user moves down the page, resulting in it running away. I don't know sufficient JS to identify