On Jun 09, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> writes: > >> #. The ``__version__`` attribute's value SHOULD be a string. > >I may be fighting against the tide here; but this screams to me that the >PEP should not be talking at all about “version number” (except to point >out that they're strings, not numbers). Instead, the term should be >“version string” throughout.
As I was doing the last edit, I did think about that. The suggestion is not without merit, but I also think "version number" is a commonly accepted term for what this thing is. I mean, we've used that term for ages to describe things like 2.6.7, which clearly isn't a number. -Barry
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