[Python-3000] Py3k Trivia :-)

[Nicholas Bastin]

On 9/21/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 9/21/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > """
> > > George isn't tall enough to ride the greatest rollercoaster of all
> > > time, The Turbo Python 3000. He uses licorice whips to measure his
> > > height and determines that he is 7-whips tall, one short of the 8-whip
> > > minimum!
> > > """
> >
> > Fantastic! I vote that we hereby adopt the licorice whip
> > as the standard unit for measuring the speed of Python 3.0
> > implementations, with the speed of 2.6 (whatever it turns
> > out to be) defined as 7 whips.
>
> Ah, but is 6 whips faster or slower than 7 whips?

Slower.  If we get up to 8 we can go for an exciting ride!  :-)

--
Nick