>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: >> I think (except in some peculiar circumstances), the place to talk about >> "the old behaviour" is in the NEWS file, not in docstrings: The doc >> string should talk about current behaviour, because (new) users won't >> have seen the old behaviour. > (Especially since this bug report is now three years old...) Another way of seeing it: because it took 3 years to answer the bug report :'(