That was apparently fixed in Python 2.7: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6116d4a1d1ecd6e9b94cfaa524b9b7cd5a6b5447 https://github.com/python/cpython/co

That was apparently fixed in Python 2.7: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6116d4a1d1ecd6e9b94cfaa524b9b7cd5a6b5447 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6116d4a1d1ecd6e9b94... http://bugs.python.org/issue12099 http://bugs.python.org/issue12099 But that commit pre-dates the blog post by many years, so maybe Armin was referring to something else, or maybe he hadn't realized it had been fixed?