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Author r.david.murray
Recipients ezio.melotti, kushal.das, nneonneo, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date 2012-10-04.13:37:22
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Unfortunately, this is a backward compatibility concern (currently working-even-if-buggy code could stop working), so I'm -1 on fixing it.  Option [2] would be an enhancement/API change, and is thus also ruled out.  

A third alternative might be to add a warning.
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