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On 2/9/2012 5:12 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:

> Argh. The 2.7 docs say it was added in 2.7, but the 3.3a0 docs say it
> was added in 3.1 (Guido's backporting time machine messes with
> "causality").

Python 2 docs refer to Python 2.
Python 3 docs refer to Python 3.
So 'it' was in neither 2.6 nor 3.1.

> Both statements are completely technically correct, but misleading
> when not taken together.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy