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Author r.david.murray
Recipients docs@python, ezio.melotti, marco.buttu, r.david.murray
Date 2012-11-04.05:00:58
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It doesn't matter whether it is a bug or not (though it is not in the situation I described).  The point is that a working program would stop working.  That is the kind of breakage our backward compatibility policy is designed to protect against.
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