Paul Hoffman questions

• Intelligently launching the default editor from inside a Python CLI program?
• How do I know which versions of pickle a particular version of Python supports?
• How to use CSS counters in lists without resetting the counters?
• Can I make decode(errors="ignore") the default for all strings in a Python 2.7 program?
• Recent-ish changes to the Python execution model?
• What is the best way for checking if the user of a script has root-like privileges?

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