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Author r.david.murray
Recipients JTMoon79, docs@python, r.david.murray
Date 2010-12-14.19:44:10
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Or, since this is Python, they could look at the code and find out that all levels above zero are equivalent.  (If I had to guess I'd say 'level' was either future proofing or designed for the use of subclasses).

But you are right, this should be mentioned in the documentation.  Care to propose a patch?
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