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Author eli.bendersky
Recipients docs@python, eli.bendersky, ncoghlan, terry.reedy
Date 2011-01-15.09:00:37
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I agree that the difference in behavior between the two functions is unfortunate, but that's unlikely to change now.

The least we can do is make the documentation precise. I'm attaching a proposed patch to Doc/c-api/object.rst

Nick/Terry/Georg - if this looks OK I can commit.
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