On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:33 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:33:20 -0400, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> > wrote: >> 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 unittest also has an outdated (and unmaintained) version number that I 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. > > The email package has an internal version (which changes no more often > than CPython's, but may change slower). Existing code in the field > tests this version attribute, so I don't think it should be deleted.
The version number in the decimal module refers to the version of the spec that is being complied with. I would like that version number to remain in the module. There are probably other cases where the version number is useful. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
