R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: Thinking about this further, it seems to me that it is in fact more important that turning a message into a string produces the same result no matter how many times it is called on the same (otherwise unmutated) object than that it avoid mutating the object tree itself. (This is called idempotence and it is an important interface concept in certain circumstances, and I think this is one of them).
The documentation should make the expectations clear, however. ---------- assignee: -> georg.brandl components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +georg.brandl stage: test needed -> needs patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7119> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
