> In my opinion, the question is more what was it not fixed in Python2. I > suppose > that the answer is something ugly like "backward compatibility" or > "historical > reasons" :-)
No, there was a deliberate decision to not support that, see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0261/ There had been a long discussion on this specific detail when PEP 261 was written, and in the end, an explicit, deliberate, considered decision was made to raise a ValueError. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
