[Python-Dev] A wart which should have been repaired in 3.0?

[Antoine Pitrou]

<skip <at> pobox.com> writes:
> You could I suppose though that would just be adding another hack on top of
> existing questionable behavior.

Agreed. We should fix the original function so that it has the obvious, intented
effect. Leaving the buggy function in place and adding another function with the
proper behaviour sounds ridiculous.