On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Matt Chaput <matt at whoosh.ca> wrote: > On 5/10/2013 2:48 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> Would it be reasonable to start deprecating this and eventually remove >> it from the language? > > Yes please! I've been bitten by the same issue more than once. +1 -m