Python Magazine: Issue 1 Free!

[J. Clifford Dyer]

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.

Cheers,
Cliff