"Edward K. Ream" <edream at tds.net> wrote in message news:3D2EED98.BD59D615 at tds.net... > Is there a way to ask Python [2.2] not to allow 2.2 constructs? No. You can import the future, but not the past. Reason: the near future disappears when it becomes the present. The past grows without end. TJR