Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Roth wrote: > > "Peter Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> George Sakkis schrieb: > >> > >>> Given that the latest 2.x python will be 2.9 > >> > >> > >> Why not 2.13 or 2.4711? Version strings are sequences of arbitrary > >> integers separated by dots and not decimal numbers, or are they? > > Because Guido said (somewhere) that he didn't want to go over > > release 2.9. >
Knuths font design program METAFONT is currently version 2.71828 (and TeX is 3.141592). As new versions come out, the version numbers converge on e and pi respectively. (As he says, when they *equal* e and pi, they will be error free, by definition) -- Rule 1. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
