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Author michael.foord
Recipients benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, fabioz, gvanrossum, matthewlmcclure-gmail, michael.foord, r.david.murray, rhettinger, terry.reedy, tomwardill
Date 2013-08-04.21:27:16
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This smells like a new feature to me (it's certainly a fairly significant change in behaviour) and isn't appropriate for backporting to 2.7.

It can however go into unittest2.

I agree with David that a destructive iteration using pop is more likely to cause backwards-compatibility issues.
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2013-08-04 21:27:16michael.foordsetrecipients: + michael.foord, gvanrossum, rhettinger, terry.reedy, fabioz, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, tomwardill, matthewlmcclure-gmail
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