> maybe there should be a warning in the 2.7 documentation

Well, such a warning really belongs in the Python 3 documentation rather than the Python 2 documentation.  (Or at least, AFAIK that's the convention that's been followed to date:  the Python 2 docs don't 'know' about Python 3 in general.)

There's a note in the 'What's new in Python 3' documentation that covers this and other changes in round:

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.0.html#builtins