Booleans, integer division, backwards compatibility; where is Python going?

[Roy Smith]

sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin) wrote:
> My crates are in the museum but AFAIR the mag tapes were 7-track or
> 9-track and the paper ones were 5-track [or was there a (6th) parity
> track?]; what's this 8-track story?

8-tracks were audio tapes.  Endless loop, 4 programs (stereo) per tape, 
nice satisfying <ka-Thunk> noise as it switched tracks automatically at the 
end of the loop.  Popular in the 60's and 70's.  Lost in the head-to-head 
competition with cassettes.