Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment: This behavior surprised me for a second, but it makes sense. An example in the docs is certainly appropriate. Would you like to suggest a place and phrasing for it? ---------- keywords: +easy nosy: +eric.araujo stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14167> _______________________________________