Hello and happy New Year!
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:20:34PM +0100, Victor Stinner
If I understood correctly, you would like to list some specific issues like print() not flushing immediatly stdout if you ask to not write a newline (print "a", in Python 2 or print("a", end=" ") in Python 3). If I understood correctly, and if you want to improve Python, you should help the documentation project. Or if you can build a website listing such issues *and listing solutions* like calling sys.stdout.flush() or using print(flush=True) (Python 3.3+) for the print issue.
A list of such issue without solution doesn't help anyone.
I cannot say for Anatoly but for me warts are: -- things that don't exist where they should (but the core team object or they are hard to implement or something); -- things that exist where they shouldn't; they are hard to fix because removing them would break backward compatibility; -- things that are implemented in strange, inconsistent ways. A few examples: -- things that don't exist in the language where they should: anonymous code blocks (multiline lambdas); case (switch) statements; do/until loops; -- things that exist in the language where they shouldn't: else clause in 'for' loops (documentation doesn't help); -- things that don't exist in the stdlib where they should: asynchronous network libs (ftp/http/etc); GUI toolkit wrappers (GTK and/or Qt); SQL DB API drivers; SSL (key/certificate generation and parsing); restricted execution (remember rexec and Bastion?); -- things that exist in the stdlib where they shouldn't: tkinter (Tk is the rarest GUI toolkit in use), turtle; smtpd.py (it's a program, not a library); -- things that are implemented in strange, inconsistent ways: limited expression syntax in decorators (only attr access and calls); heapq (not object-oriented). Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.