Paul Boddie: > the author's frustration with the state of the standard library: > something which almost always gets mentioned in people's pet Python > hates, but something mostly ignored in the wider enthusiasm for > tidying up the language.
There is some possibility that Python 3.1 will have what you ask for: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/ Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list