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Author rhettinger
Recipients cvrebert, docs@python, ezio.melotti, rhettinger, terry.reedy, tshepang
Date 2012-08-28.05:59:28
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The 3.3 version has the virtue of being accurate and the vice of being confusing.  In a way, it has made the docs worse for the average user of common cases.

Is there a way to stack the alternative signatures rather than mush the various used into a single pile of mush?

    int(x=0) --> integer coercion
    int(str, base=10) --> integer converted from string in a given base
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