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Author r.david.murray
Recipients exarkun, giampaolo.rodola, lekma, neologix, nnja, nvetoshkin, pitrou, r.david.murray, raulcd, vstinner
Date 2015-04-14.21:26:10
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If we were designing from scratch, that would be true.  But we are stuck with the behavior that we have, and cannot change it because we need to preserve backward compatibility.  This is why we need to make it a new method.
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