Yep, a complete disregard for compatibility between versions means that there is no such thing as the "Python Language" anymore, just Python 2.2, Python 2.4,

Yep, a complete disregard for compatibility between versions means that there is no such thing as the "Python Language" anymore, just Python 2.2, Python 2.4, and so forth. Back around 2001, Java apps were the scariest things to install on Linux systems because a good runtime didn't exist. Eventually Java got it's act together and Python became the main offender. There were about four years that it was difficult to run the official BitTorrent client on Red Hat Linux because Guido decided to change the interface of the http libraries for no good reason.