[Python-ideas] PEP 4XX: Adding sys.implementation

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Thu May 3 04:17:40 CEST 2012


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Eric Snow wrote:
>>Version Format
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>>XXX same as sys.version_info?
>
> Why not? :)  It might be useful also to have something similar to
> sys.hexversion, which I often find convenient.

Would it be worth mirroring all 3 (sys.version, sys.version_info,
sys.hexversion)?  Symmetry is nice, but it also makes sense if the
each would be as meaningful as they are in sys.

-eric



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