When I set up xrdp on Raspbian Jessie a while ago, the keyboard layout appeared to be wrong - commonly used keys seemed to be returning US keycodes rather than UK ones.
The implementation of PEP 391 (Dictionary-Based Configuration for Logging) provides, under the hood, the basis for a flexible, general-purpose configuration mechanism. The class which performs the logging configuration work is DictConfigurator, and it's based on another class, BaseConfigurator.
Last year, Mark Hammond proposed PEP 397 (Python launcher for Windows), to bring some much needed functionality for Python on Windows. Historically, Python on Windows does not add itself to the system path; this needs to be done manually by users as a separate step.
With the acceptance of PEP 414 (Explicit Unicode Literal for Python 3.3), string literals with u prefixes will be permitted syntax in Python 3.3, though they cause a SyntaxError in Python 3.2 (and earlier 3.x versions).
The subprocess module provides some very useful functionality for working with external programs from Python applications, but is often complained about as being harder to use than it needs to be.
