All trails eventually lead to Ken! :-) On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > 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. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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