<div dir="ltr">This makes sense if you view "1.7" as encompassing all of the releases<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, etc. (and their variants). It's a bit like the<br>
"significant digits" of a number. [1] You want the release to be<br>
bigger than all releases of that type.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>but is this really the underlying concept? <br>Does the PEP explain this as a justification? Where?<br></div><br></div><br></div></div>