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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:39:16 +1000
Subject: Re: Something is rotten in Denmark...
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:53 AM, harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> wrote=
:
> =A0 =A0 Having compared the two, someone please tell me whether the two a=
re
> incompatible, mostly compatible, completely incompatible, or different
> languages...
>

By implication, every version of Python is incompatible with every
other. The 2.7.1 revision notes include:

- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic link=
s
  across devices.

Suppose some program were depending on this bug. It works under 2.7.0,
fails under 2.7.1. Does that mean that 2.7.1 is incompatible with
2.7.0?

Chris Angelico