Python Magazine: Issue 1 Free!

[Wayne Brehaut]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:12:04 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:

>J. Clifford Dyer a écrit :
>> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:11:07PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>> regarding Re: Python Magazine: Issue 1 Free!:
>> 
>>> On 2007-10-05, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>> I've just been told by the editors at Python Magazine that
>>>>>> the first issue is out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The first issue is issue number 10?
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's a bit silly.
>>>> 
>>>> It's the October edition. They obviously decided to make sure the
>>>> month numbering was consistent across the volumes.
>>> 
>>> I presumed that was the reasoning. It just seems counter-intuitive
>>> (and sort of un-Pythonic) to start numbering a sequence of objects
>>> at 10. ;)
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Well, it's also unpythonic to start numbering a sequence at 1, but
>> it's clearly the right thing to do in this case.
>
>As far as I'm concerned, if I had to number a magazine about 
>programming, I'd obviously start with 0.

And since the "first" issue is free that would be best here too.

>Then it would be n°1, n°10, 
>n°11, n°100 etc !-)

But probably with enough leading zeros to last the expected lifetime
(8 bits should about do it?)  so they'd sort properly:

0000 0000
0000 0001
etc.

wwwayne