[Python-Dev] RE: [Idle-dev] Forward progress with full backwardcompatibility

[Fredrik Lundh]

> If so, and because sys.hexversion is currently undocumented, I'd
> propose making sys.hexversion a tuple of
>=20
>     (PY_VERSION_HEX, PY_MAJOR_VERSION, PY_MINOR_VERSION,
>      PY_MICRO_VERSION, PY_RELEASE_LEVEL, PY_RELEASE_SERIAL)

thanks.  I feel better now ;-)

but wouldn't something like (1, 6, 0, "a1") be easier
to understand and use?

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