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Fri Nov 19 22:39:04 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105746.html

Am 19.11.2010 22:35, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis":
>> I don't understand all the worry about sys.subversion.
> 
> Really? For a security release, there should be *zero* chance that it
> breaks existing applications, unless the application relies on the
> security bug that has been fixed. By "zero chance", I mean absolutely
> no chance, never. I'm pretty sure that applications *will* break because
> of the change to sys.subversion, or sys.version. People made bug reports
> complaining that sys.version has a newline on some systems and not on
> others.
> 
>> It's not like
>> it's useful to anybody else than us
> 
> I think you underestimate what API people actually use in applications
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/292vhxx
> http://tinyurl.com/23ah8ps
> http://tinyurl.com/27fhyvk
> http://tinyurl.com/28cuyv9
> etc.

Well, it should not be a problem to continue to provide a sys.subversion
that at least will not break applications reading it.

And yes, I am in favor of giving the new attribute a leading underscore.

Georg

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