On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Lars Hansson wrote:

> Why are there different versions of python in the tree in the first place?

- Because major revisions of Python are not guaranteed to be 100% backwards
  compatible

- Because major revisions of Python sometimes introduce new bugs

- Becuase it is a lot of effort to move ports/ to a newer Python version,
  but we want the newer versions available in the meantime so we can test

- Because some of us (me at least) develop Python modules and want to test
  them under multiple supported versions of Python

-d

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