Raymond Hettinger wrote: > This seems like something that could reasonably be added to Py2.6. +1 from me PEP 3107 (function annotation), PEP 3104 (nonlocal) and PEP 3132 (extended iterable unpacking: a, *b = 1,2,3) are IMHO other useful feature for 2.6. nonlocal would require a __future__ import. Christian