On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:17:40PM -0600, Eric Snow wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Barry Warsaw
wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Eric Snow wrote:
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XXX same as sys.version_info?
Why not? :) It might be useful also to have something similar to sys.hexversion, which I often find convenient.
Would it be worth mirroring all 3 (sys.version, sys.version_info, sys.hexversion)? Symmetry is nice, but it also makes sense if the each would be as meaningful as they are in sys.
I am still unclear what justification there is for having a separate sys.version (from PEP 421: "the version of the Python language") and sys.implementation.version ("the version of the Python implementation"). Under what circumstances will one change but not the other? -- Steven