[Python-3000] Py3k Trivia :-)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 9/21/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > """
> > George isn't tall enough to ride the greatest rollercoaster of all
> > time, The Turbo Python 3000. He uses licorice whips to measure his
> > height and determines that he is 7-whips tall, one short of the 8-whip
> > minimum!
> > """
>
> Fantastic! I vote that we hereby adopt the licorice whip
> as the standard unit for measuring the speed of Python 3.0
> implementations, with the speed of 2.6 (whatever it turns
> out to be) defined as 7 whips.

Ah, but is 6 whips faster or slower than 7 whips?

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