Python 2.0b1 is released!

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <39B645EF.3EBD336C at ses.curtin.edu.au>,
Nick Bower  <bowern at ses.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
>
>umm... could someone tell me why python 2.0 is not called python 1.61
>(going by the relase schedule and amount of changes).  Is there *really*
>that much difference between python 2.0 and 1.6 that a major version
>change was required?

It's partly the changes (and there are a number of them) and partly to
signify that Python is now BeOpen Python.
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