[New-bugs-announce] [issue31826] Misleading __version__ attribute of modules in standard library

Jakub Mateusz Dzik report at bugs.python.org
Fri Oct 20 09:21:04 EDT 2017


New submission from Jakub Mateusz Dzik <bugs.python.org20171020 at amix.org.pl>:

Several modules of the standard library (at least `re` and `csv`) have `__version__` strings.

The string is the same for Python 2.7-3.6:

    >>> import re, csv; print(re.__version__, csv.__version__)
    2.2.1 1.0

while documentation indicates changes in the modules.

Semantic versioning (recommended by PEP 440) suggests that at least minor version should change in such case.

I suspect it to be a "code fossil" which may be removed according to PEP 396.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 304654
nosy: abukaj
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Misleading __version__ attribute of modules in standard library
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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