Message 288618 - Python tracker

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I've attempted a Pull-request trying to implement what Brett is describing. See https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/327, and opened http://bugs.python.org/issue29660 to document that etype is ignored and decide wether it should emit DeprecationWarning when used.