Dinu Gherman wrote: > Apparently the python mailiing lists on python.org are blocked, so let > me ask here. Is there any good reason for the following behaviour to > be different on Python 1.5.2 and 2.0? python 1.5.2 is lying to you. for the full story, see: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#line24 Cheers /F