argh

the site I have to automate the API of has a nice python wrapper and the one function I need is marked "WIP sorry"

last modified in 2022

I figured I could easily fix the problem in the one function I needed

I think I've now found a bug in python's standard library

oh it might be fixed in 3.15.0a6, which hasn't been released yet
oh god there's a stackoverflow question mentioning this bug from 2015
@foone only 10 years. sure they will get around to it.