On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:10 PM, anatoly techtonik
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. --
Is this a question or just a rant? If it's a question, I must have missed what it is exactly that you're asking? The web is a pretty free place. Feel free to create such a tag on Stack Overflow and maintain it, if the SO community agrees it has merit. Don't expect the Python developers to officially endorse it, because "warts" is a very subjective issue. A "wart" for one person is a reasonable behavior for another. Eli