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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe this sort of lexicographical comparison wart is one of the reasons
> the Python-dev gang decided that there would be no micro versions > 9. There
> are too many similar assumptions about version numbers out in the real
> world.

It still becomes an issue when we get to Python 10.