metaperl> I personally would prefer that it be broken down a bit metaperl> further. What are existing opinions on this?
I believe there have been noises made in this direction, and not that long ago. If a backward-compatible way of solving this problem could be worked out, I imagine this could go in 2.6. If not, such a change would probably have to wait until 3.0. I'm sure there are plenty of applications in the wild that rely on the current behavior. You might try searching the bugs and patches on SF to see if someone's already submitted a patch. If so, feel free to try it out and add a review comment. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list