Python 2.0b1 is released!

[Nick Bower]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> A unique event in all the history of Python: two releases on the same
> day!  (At least in my timezone. :-)
>

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?

nick