In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Erik Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Barring anyone else disagreeing with classifying it as a bug, I would > suggest reporting it. Proper procedure for reporting a bug appears to be > covered in section B of the Python Library Reference: > http://docs.python.org/lib/reporting-bugs.html Thanks for that link. I searched for an existing bug covering this case and found 1229380, which specifically lists the case I raised. The bug appears to have been closed last June, which confuses me since the bad behavior remains in 2.5. Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list