On Aug 23, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2010/8/23 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>: >> >> P.S. The current behavior seems to be deeply embedded: > > Well, that's what happens when a behavior is added in 1990. :)
More generally: it is an API code smell whenever documentation promises something like "this always succeeds" ;-) Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com