R. David Murray added the comment: Ah, yes. To clarify for Shai, by the way, the reason this stuff can't change (and the reason there is a new step 3 instead of changing the whole algorithm to be something more sensible) is because of the requirement of maintaining backward compatibility. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Interpreter Core nosy: +docs@python _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue17108 _______________________________________