[Python-Dev] Module version variable

[Guido van Rossum]

All trails eventually lead to Ken! :-)

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 08:50 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>I do distinctly recall __version__ being standardized for other
>>purposes too, but I have no idea how to find that reference... It
>>probably was well before 2000.
>
> FWIW, I went spelunking in my email archives and the earliest reference to
> __version__ I found was in a file called subproc.py posted to comp.lang.python
> by Ken Manheimer.  It contained a CVS expanded $Revision$ keyword.
>
> The message is dated January 12, 1995.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)