On 16/03/2011 12:39, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are > interested) when I noticed that it has the following line: > > _ver = "turtle 1.1b- - for Python 3.1 - 4. 5. 2009" > unittest also has an outdated (and unmaintained) version number that I would like to remove. Standard library modules should be versioned by the release of Python they are packaged with (unless they are externally maintained I guess) and so should preferably *not* carry version info. All the best, Michael > This is obviously out of date and this variable is not used anywhere > in the module. I would simply delete it, but I wonder if there is any > recommended mechanism for maintaining module versions. > > Some modules define __version__ which has a special meaning at least > for pydoc and possibly some third party tools. In many cases it is > never updated and its format and meaning varies from module to module. > (For example, decimal module stores the version of the spec rather > than the version of the module in __version__.) > > In several instances, __version__ is set to "$Revision$" in an > apparent attempt to leverage VCS to keep it up to date, but this does > not seem to work after hg transition. For example, > > $ ./python.exe -m pydoc pydoc > .. > VERSION > $Revision$ > > The other affected modules are pickle and tarfile. > > Do you have an advise on how these issues should be handled? > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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