Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: 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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