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Tue Mar 22 22:30:09 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109845.html

On Mar 18, 2011, at 08:50 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>I do distinctly recall __version__ being standardized for other
>purposes too, but I have no idea how to find that reference... It
>probably was well before 2000.

FWIW, I went spelunking in my email archives and the earliest reference to
__version__ I found was in a file called subproc.py posted to comp.lang.python
by Ken Manheimer.  It contained a CVS expanded $Revision$ keyword.

The message is dated January 12, 1995.

-Barry
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