BAW> Thus Python 1.6a2 would have a sys.version_info() of (1, 6, 0, BAW> 'alpha', 2), e.g. the form is: BAW> (major, minor, micro, level, serial) BAW> You can't use 'gamma' though because then you break comparability. Yeah, you can. Don't use 'final'. Use 'omega'... ;-) Skip