Nikolaus Rath added the comment: The first thing that would come to my mind when reading Nick's proposed document (without first reading this bug report) is "So why the heck is this not the default?". It would probably save a lot of people a lot of anger if there was also a brief explanation addressing this obvious first response :-). ---------- nosy: +nikratio _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue18713 _______________________________________