
June 23, 2014
6:47 p.m.
I'm not sure yet what to think of the proposal (the proposed workarounds sound pretty reasonable) but it looks to me like the OP (Stefano) did a pretty good and careful analysis of the existing API, and his actual proposal does make the most sense if we wanted to add such a feature at all. (And yes, the subject was a little misleading. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)