On Aug 21, 5:06 pm, Nicholas Cole <nicholas.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > So my guess is that the change was unintentional. > > > It's probably worth a bug report. Even if the behaviour isn't going > > to change in either 2.x or 3.x (and it probably isn't), it might be > > possible to clarify the docs. > > I think the docs should be fixed: it would be good to have a list of > key examples where the behaviour is different. Although the new > behaviour is better, it certainly tripped me up badly. > > I'm happy to fill a report out, but since you seem to know much more > about the internals, I wonder if a bug report written by you would be > more useful!
http://bugs.python.org/issue9658 Please do log in and add any extra comments you feel appropriate. -- Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list