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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Andrey.Kislyuk, cvrebert, eric.araujo, eric.smith, evan_, ezio.melotti, ned.deily, python-dev, r.david.murray, robodan, vinay.sajip
Date 2016-11-16.12:32:20
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Per our conversation on IRC: since this is not a regression, it is unlikely to be addressed at this stage of the 3.6 release cycle.  I'm adding the release manager as nosy just in case, but I don't expect him to want this to be addressed now.

IMO if the behavior does not match "the posix shell", then it is a bug, and can be fixed in 3.6.1.  (I'd prefer not to wait longer than that, though).  So proposing a patch with tests and doc changes would be beneficial.

As for the flag defaults, that's a backward compatibility issue.  I don't like the idea of changing the default based on the value of another flag, but it could be discussed.  The 'longer term' would be a several release deprecation cycle...I think that has been discussed previously but I can't find the discussion in a quick search.  The documentation, however, could be improved.  Please open a separate issue for the doc change request at least.
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