>>>>> "Fred" == Fred L Drake, Jr <fdrake@acm.org> writes:
Fred> Doesn't this further damage the human readability of the
Fred> value?
A little, but it's a fine compromise between the various constraints.
Another way you could structure that tuple is to split the
PY_RELEASE_LEVEL and the PY_RELEASE_SERIAL. Make the former even more
readable if you want, and make the latter a real int. Thus Python
1.6a2 would have a sys.version_info() of (1, 6, 0, 'alpha', 2),
e.g. the form is:
(major, minor, micro, level, serial)
You can't use 'gamma' though because then you break comparability.
Maybe use 'candidate' instead? Sigh.
Fred> I thought that was an important reason to break it
Fred> up from sys.hexversion. (Note also that you're not just
Fred> saying more than 9 pre-releases, but more than 9 at any one
Fred> of alpha, beta, or release candidate stages. 1-9 at each
Fred> stage is already 27 pre-release packages.)
Well, Guido hisself must have thought that there was a remote
possibility of more than 9 releases at a particular level, otherwise
he'd have jammed PY_RELEASE_SERIAL in 3 bits. I mean, there's no
other possible explanation for his choices is there?! :)
-Barry
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