Python Magazine: Issue 1 Free!

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Wayne Brehaut a écrit :
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:52:13 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Wayne Brehaut a écrit :
>>
>>>On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:12:04 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers
>>><bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>J. Clifford Dyer a écrit :
>>
>>(snip)
>>
>>>>>Well, it's also unpythonic to start numbering a sequence at 1, but
>>>>>it's clearly the right thing to do in this case.
>>>>
>>>>As far as I'm concerned, if I had to number a magazine about 
>>>>programming, I'd obviously start with 0.
>>>
>>>And since the "first" issue is free that would be best here too.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Then it would be n°1, n°10, 
>>>>n°11, n°100 etc !-)
>>>
>>>But probably with enough leading zeros to last the expected lifetime
>>>(8 bits should about do it?)  so they'd sort properly:
>>>
>>>0000 0000
>>>0000 0001
>>>etc.
>>
>>Mmm... sort of reminds me of y2k.
> 
> 
> Funny, I was thinking IPv4.

Lol. At the exact moment I hit the 'send' button, I thought of some 
(in)famous quote about 640k for everyone !-)

And to answer your first point, 0, 1, 10, 11, 100 etc *does* sort 
properly...