Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> added the comment: I agree that the difference in behavior between the two functions is unfortunate, but that's unlikely to change now.
The least we can do is make the documentation precise. I'm attaching a proposed patch to Doc/c-api/object.rst Nick/Terry/Georg - if this looks OK I can commit. ---------- keywords: +easy, patch nosy: +eli.bendersky, ncoghlan, terry.reedy -Devin Jeanpierre type: -> behavior Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20413/issue10912.py3k.1.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10912> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com