> If you *must* support the two-arg flavor (which I've never actually > seen outside this discussion), I'd suggest not documenting it as a > backward compatibility, only that it will disappear in 1.7. This can > be done fairly easily and cleanly in the library reference. Yes, I must. Can you fix up the docs? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)