-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2011 06:15 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > On 3/16/2011 5:54 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Raymond Hettinger >> <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> .. >>> 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. >> >> I mentioned this in my first post. If the version number of the spec >> is important, shouldn't it be called something else? > > I agree, especially if we need to issue a new version of the library > that implements the same spec. We couldn't upgrade __version__, since > it's used for the spec. There'd be no way to know (by inspection) if the > version of the library fixed a spec compliance issue.
I'm not even sure why you would want __version__ in 99% of modules: in the ordinary cases, a module's version should be either the Python version (for a module shipped in the stdlib), or the release of the distribution which shipped it. Free-standing, separately-distributed modules are a huge anomaly ISTM that other cases (version of a spec targeted by the module, or of the underlying C library it wraps), need their own attribute. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2BRkwACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7ZnACcDNxH/pR5jb0ycNK/i3LlvsDF AxYAnAvnPQT5iMkAONSTFYVYM5tlazYw =2eBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
