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I think you may be taking the word oddity different than I meant it. These are things that trip up my students when they're learning Python.

I left out error messages (and occasionally other things) because Twitter.

I don't think any of the ones I put in this moment should be considered bugs. Many of these are core language features.

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Some of them seem like litmus test for a Python programmer interview, others feel like WTFs Python LoL! It is hard to disambiguate them. Standing on their own in that twitter feed, with little context, there is next to no enlightenment.

Lots of the oddities could be explained by

    In [1]: list({'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3})
    Out[1]: ['a', 'b', 'c']

When people would expect

    In [2]: list({'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3}.items())
    Out[2]: [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)]

Lots of Python makes sense. About 3% does not. It is good to know the 3% so it doesn't bite one in the ass. Maybe switch to image posts? 1 megapixel limit.

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