Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

It's also a question of adding a feature to a point release.  If dev's relied 
on the new feature, they would also have to test for version > 2.7.1.  We 
usually try to avoid that (after a minor fiasco with booleans many years ago).

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