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by chingjun 4187 days ago
Chinese government once blocked the download page of the python website (python.org), when they released python version 2.6.4. It is widely believed that it's because the version number triggered that[1].

Python website has since added another download link written in Chinese on their website.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_19... , called 六四事件 in Chinese, literally means six-four incident since it happened on 4th of June

1 comments

Hah! I didn't know that since I don't use Python, but I agree with the speculation of that blocking!
When PHP announced that they will skip PHP6, we joked that it is a smart move to avoid PHP version 6.4
That's much too hilarious