What went wrong in Python1.6 ?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Roy Smith wrote:

> As far as I know, nothing was really "wrong" with 1.6, other than
> timing.

in practice, what was released as 1.6 final was pretty much an
early 1.6 alpha (plus some backported stuff); what was supposed
to be 1.6 final was renamed 2.0...

so in a parallel universe, most of us are using using 1.7.3 and 1.8.1,
and the python-dev team is warming up for 1.9...

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