
May 2, 2012
11:31 p.m.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:17:40PM -0600, Eric Snow wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Eric Snow wrote: <snip> 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?
In the event of an implementation bugfix? The Python version implemented would be unchanged, but the implementation version would be incremented slightly. Cheers, Chris