On Jul 27, 4:26 pm, "Russ P." <Russ.Paie... at gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 26, 11:18 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote: > > The use of <nothing>'.' has been suggested before and rejected. > > Where and why? Google is your friend: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000793.html