Chris Jerdonek added the comment: For future reference, here is the beginning of the e-mail thread on python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-September/121584.html We also need to know whether the Tru64 trick needs to be used in 2.7, since this documentation issue also affects 2.7. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15533> _______________________________________