[Pythonmac-SIG] Python Metadata Importer

[Nicholas Riley]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:54:59AM -0400, Jonathan Wight wrote:
> After adding Gideon's suggestion for CRLF ending file. My importer is  
> failing on only 8 files out of 3084 files.
> 
> All the failures are with Python files that try to generate the  
> __version__ attribute with code instead, e.g.:
> 
> __version__ = string.split('$Revision: 1.8 $')[1]
> __version__ = '$Revision: 1.6 $'[11:-2]
> 
> And so on.
> 
> My options are:
> 
> #1 Continue to fail and not process the script any further (easiest  
> solution ;-)
> #2 Just ignore the attribute in question.
> #3 Convert the attribute into a string even though it might not make  
> much sense.
> #4 Execute the line and get the computed value of the attribute.
> 
> I don't really want to execute the line - who the heck knows what it  
> could do. Unless anyone has any better ideas I'm just going to try  
> and gracefully ignore the attribute.

How about just recognizing versions that have the form "$Revision:
foo$" and stripping the tag info, just as the code above does?

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