initial magic ? (question mark) fails before wildcard

[Jonathan March]

All the documentation which I have found says that magic:
?a*
should be the same as
a*?

But this is not the case. The latter searches namespaces as desired, the former raises SyntaxError.

OTOH, the following two do act identically:
?a
a?

Is this a documentation error, a product bug, or my configuration error?

Python 2.6.2
Ipython 0.10
Windows XP SP3

==== partial session copy: ===
In [1]: ?a
Object `a` not found.
In [2]: a?
Object `a` not found.
In [3]: ?a*
------------------------------------
   File "<ipython console>", line 1
     ?a*
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
In [4]: a*?
abs
all
any
apply

[Fernando Perez (fdo.perez)]

Documentation error at the very least. It would be nice to actually support it in both modes, but barring that, we should explain that only the *? form works.