Alejandro Santos <alejolp@alejolp.com> added the comment: The call is also present on the older 3.1 and "dev" release of the docs: http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/extending/extending.html#keyword-parame... http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/extending/windows.html#a-cookbook-appro... http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/faq/extending.html#what-does-systemerro... http://docs.python.org/dev/extending/extending.html#keyword-parameters-for-e... http://docs.python.org/dev/extending/windows.html#a-cookbook-approach http://docs.python.org/dev/faq/extending.html#what-does-systemerror-pyimport... ---------- versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12484> _______________________________________