Message 65995 - Python tracker

The problem is with the "if you use it consistently" premise.  That 
will not hold in an environment with legacy code, multiple programmers, 
lots of code in ASPN recipes and published materials, and third-party 
modules.  A patch like this dooms Py2.6 programmers to seeing both of 
these forms intermixed throughout the code base.  This is *not* a win.