Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The 3.3 version has the virtue of being accurate and the vice of being confusing. In a way, it has made the docs worse for the average user of common cases. Is there a way to stack the alternative signatures rather than mush the various used into a single pile of mush? int(x=0) --> integer coercion int(str, base=10) --> integer converted from string in a given base ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14783> _______________________________________