9 Jun
2011
9 Jun
'11
6:36 p.m.
On Jun 09, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
Barry Warsaw
writes: #. The ``__version__`` attribute's value SHOULD be a string.
I may be fighting against the tide here; but this screams to me that the PEP should not be talking at all about “version number” (except to point out that they're strings, not numbers). Instead, the term should be “version string” throughout.
As I was doing the last edit, I did think about that. The suggestion is not without merit, but I also think "version number" is a commonly accepted term for what this thing is. I mean, we've used that term for ages to describe things like 2.6.7, which clearly isn't a number. -Barry