Will Guido's "Python Regrets" ever get implemented/fixed?

[Rod Stephenson]

Rocco Moretti <roccomoretti at hotpop.com> writes:

> John Roth wrote:
> > "Peter Maas" <peter at somewhere.com> wrote in message
> > news:dab25m$dvk$1 at swifty.westend.com...
> >
> >> 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)

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Rule 1.