R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: Since changing the implementation would be a backward incompatible behavior change to a behavior that has existed for a long time, it's the docs that should be updated. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +docs@python, r.david.murray stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9921> _______________________________________