Ooooh, I was too slow ;)

Adding my carefully crafted notes on rejection anyway.

pep-0299.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Status: Rejected
 Type: Standards Track
 Created: 12-Aug-2002
 Python-version: 2.3
-Post-History:
+Post-History: 29-Mar-2006
 
 
 Abstract
@@ -92,6 +92,20 @@ Open Issues
       transition to the new standard idiom.
 
 
+Rejection
+
+    In a short discussion on python-dev [1], two major backwards
+    compatibility problems were brought up and Guido pronounced that he
+    doesn't like the idea anyway as it's "not worth the change (in docs,
+    user habits, etc.) and there's nothing particularly broken."
+
+
+References
+
+    [1] Georg Brandl, "What about PEP 299",
+        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062951.html
+
+
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