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I'm not sure I understand the question, but I can answer both interpretations: 1. Did it (the chord trainer app) help my son when he was studying music? Not as far as I can tell. H…

I can't believe I didn't put this in the original repo, but this is where I got the piano samples from: https://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/mis.html They have guitar samples as well, …

So I built the original web app for this (it's not stolen, it's open source and I told OP they could fork it). I've been glad to see it getting more attention over the years. One n…

Well, pytz actually is technically flawed at the moment because it cannot read TZif Version 2+ files, so it breaks for dates >2038 (and it would break if you tried to point it at s…

Actually, naïve times are considered aware in the system time zone. There's no good way to create a `tzinfo` object that behaves like "the system time zone" and doesn't have unfort…

To be clear, when I wrote this article, I had not yet created the `zoneinfo` module in the standard library. All the recommendations for `dateutil.tz` apply to `zoneinfo` as well, …

As mentioned in the article, this was a deliberate change in Python 3. If you read this article: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2022/04/naive-local-datetim... you will see why th…

I did not realize that I never stated that in the original article. I've updated it to be a bit more explicit. Thanks!

> I can't help but read all the interjections from the core developers as a strong indication of why all these sorts of things tend to fail on the vine. I think this might be a mis…

This is at worst a lateral move — you need something installed that handles your test invocation for you. It could be `make`, `tox`, `nox`, `poetry` or whatever. For a number of re…

Sorry, I could have been more clear there, and I've updated the post. I have the "curse of knowledge" and took is as assumed that you can only do this if your particular build conf…

I think that it is true that I should have written this article or something like it years ago, but there's still a long tail of people who don't even know that invoking setup.py i…