[Python-Dev] Module version variable

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 19, 2011, at 01:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:12:19 -0700
>Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is a section in PEP8 about __version__ but it serves a slightly
>> different purpose there:
>> 
>> """
>> Version Bookkeeping
>> 
>>     If you have to have Subversion, CVS, or RCS crud in your source file, do
>>     it as follows.
>> 
>>         __version__ = "$Revision: 88433 $"
>>         # $Source$
>
>This should be updated (or rather, removed) now that we use Mercurial...

I've made a note about it and will address it in PEP 396.

-Barry
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