Mark Hammond quoted Barry Warsaw: >> I'd >> propose making sys.hexversion a tuple of >> (PY_VERSION_HEX, PY_MAJOR_VERSION, PY_MINOR_VERSION, >> PY_MICRO_VERSION, PY_RELEASE_LEVEL, PY_RELEASE_SERIAL) If it's a tuple, the name "hexversion" makes absolutely no sense. Call it version_tuple or something like that. --amk