"Josiah Carlson" <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote in message news:20060419091913.A82C.JCARLSON at uci.edu... > It seems you are right (I was paying attention, but apparently to the > wrong stuff); after going through most of the py3k list history, those > changes that would have been backwards compatible were basically > rejected. That is because numerous more-or-less non-controversial code-breaking changes have already been approved and listed in PEP 3100 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/ many before this list started. Now we are more thoroughly discussing and getting pronouncements on things not approved before. Terry Jan Reedy