strange results from sys.version

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On 2010-09-27, at 4:01 PM, John Machin wrote:

> User (work): sys.version: 2.7 (r27:82500, Aug 23 2010, 17:18:21) etc
> Me         : sys.version: 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul  4 2010, 09:01:59) etc
> 
> [...] User result looks whacked: lower patch number, later date

Perusing http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release27-maint/?view=log - the difference in svn versions (there is no difference in patch number) seems insignificant. Both revisions are past the 2.7 final release. Perhaps, the python.org installer was created using a later revision.

-srid