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Author gvanrossum
Recipients Red HamsterX, ajaksu2, amaury.forgeotdarc, gvanrossum, pitrou, r.david.murray, sanxiyn
Date 2009-07-29.17:55:45
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It strikes me as simply a documentation bug. Maybe whoever wrote the
docs just assumed it would work that way. I expect that changing it to
insist on valid input would break some use cases. If you want a
validating API, perhaps a new API could be added that validates as well
as converts.
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