Can I make a plea for people to not post code with source highlighting as HTML please? It is rendered like this for some of us: On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:01:00AM -0700, Chris Barker via Python-ideas wrote: In [*46*]: {a:[t[0] *for* t *in* b] *for* a,b *in* groupby(sorted(student_school_list, key=*lambda* t: t[1]), key=*lambda* t: t[ ... (Aside from the iPython prompt, the rest ought to be legal Python but isn't because of the extra asterisks added.) And in the archives: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2018-June/051723.html Gmail, I believe, has a "Paste As Plain Text" command in the right-click menu. Or possibly find a way to copy the text without formatting in the first case. Thanks, -- Steve