Where to nerd out about python in the DPO?

[notatallshaw (Damian Shaw)]

Yeah, it’s been brought up several times:

Is there a Users category?

Hello, I came about About the Committers category which clarified regular members couldn’t participate to the discussions in Committers. The message mentions a Users category which I’m failing to locate. Thus my question, is there a user-oriented community discussion place? I can appreciate some categories require a certain role to participate but that means there doesn’t seem to be a space for us lot, regular members. Maybe that would put too much pressure on moderation though? Thanks all …

Missing #users category

In the categories listing it can be seen Core Development Discussions relating to the development of Python (usage of Python should be discussed in the #users category, new ideas for Python to #ideas). but no #users category is visible? Edited: Aha. When posting without pre formating #users is rendered as Python Help. Maybe then something can be done in the caption of Core Development so it reads Python help?

Is there a category for fun, semi on-topic stuff?

I wanted to make a post in a tier list format rating various PEPs. I would share my rating and post it the list on TierMaker so others can rate it and share their own. I think it would be really funny and interesting seeing what other members hear think about certain features. This is just one idea, but I can think of a few more Python, “meme-like” things I would probably want to post here. I know this doesn’t contribute in any way to Python’s development, so I don’t want to spam an existing …

Can I write fun / esoteric python code here?

Hello, just asking if I can post here (probably in Help category) some python code that is funny / convoluted / obfuscated or esoteric… (various adjectives can be given). Something like easter-eggs. I am lacking this kind of section in this forum… But I think it can be quite educative. (Of course unless the code is malicious, but I don’t mean this kind of stuff.) M.