[issue12912] xmlrpclib.__version__ not bumped with updates

[Rob Crittenden]

New submission from Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com>:

xmlrpclib.__version__ reports 1.0.1 from Python 2.7 in Fedora 14 and Python 2.6 in Fedora 12.

I discovered this while trying to find a way to identify the version of xmlrpclib. The 2.7 xmlrpclib is not completely backward compatible with that in 2.6

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

python-2.7-7.fc14.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:

$ rpm -q python
python-2.6.2-8.fc12.x86_64
$ python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun  4 2010, 18:28:58) 
[GCC 4.4.3 20100127 (Red Hat 4.4.3-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> xmlrpclib.__version__
'1.0.1'

$ rpm -q python
python-2.7-7.fc14.x86_64
$ python
Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Jul 26 2010, 18:19:48) 
[GCC 4.5.0 20100716 (Red Hat 4.5.0-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xmlrpclib
>>> xmlrpclib.__version__
'1.0.1'

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 143604
nosy: rcritten
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: xmlrpclib.__version__ not bumped with updates
versions: Python 2.7

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