Hi Oscar,
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Oscar Benjamin
Since no one has responded to this for some time I would estimate that not many people particularly dislike your idea. So feel free to open an issue about it on the tracker (after checking that there isn't already an open issue and that your problem is not already solved in the most recent release): http://bugs.python.org/
On the other hand evidently not many people are very enthusiastic about this idea so it's possible that the tracker issue will not go anywhere unless you write the patch yourself.
Thanks for responding! I opened an issue before posting here: http://bugs.python.org/issue18314 I'd be happy to provide a patch, but I only want to put time into it if there's a reasonable chance it gets committed. That's why I wanted to hear if there were any objections, so I don't end up writing, testing and posting a patch only to end up in quibbles around the general idea. I'm new to Python development; would a concrete patch help move this forward? Thanks, - Kim