Python Magazine: Issue 1 Free!
Bruno Desthuilliers
bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Wed Oct 3 22:12:04 EDT 2007
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. Then it would be n°1, n°10,
n°11, n°100 etc !-)
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