12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Michael Hudson]

"John Roth" <johnroth at ameritech.net> writes:

> It depends on the version numbering.

And politics.

> I don't know the early history, but I've seen references to 1.3,
> 1.4, 1.5.2 (which I believe that one of the Linux distros is still
> shipping as their default Python), 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 coming into
> alpha test shortly.

There's also 1.6 and sundry x.y.1 releases, as well as a bunch of
earlier stuff; I think there was 0.9.1 thru 0.9.5 or so, and 1.0, 1.1
and 1.2.

I think the decision to call 2.0 2.0 and not 1.7 was a least slightly
political.  It would have been more reasonable if 2.2 had been 2.0,
IMHO.

Cheers,
M.

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