Python 2.0b1 is released!

[Robin Becker]

In article <8p5hq3$bj7$1 at panix6.panix.com>, Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com>
writes
>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.
With all the various Pythons I think it silly to become one of a herd;
why couldn't it just be Python?
-- 
Robin Becker