[Python-Dev] do people use sys._mercurial?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

francismb writes:

 > Does that helps traceability (reproducibility)? If distros use (?) 
 > the tarball from the release why it doesn't have, at least, the
 > information from where that tarball was generated from (the check
 > out point) ?

The pointer goes in the other direction: there will be a tag in the
repo named to indicate the version.