[issue29775] There appears to be a spurious ^0 in sys.version for 3.6.1rc1

2017-03-09 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks, Paul, we are aware of the spurious ^0. It will be resolved under Issue 25793. -- priority: release blocker -> resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Deprecate sys._mercurial and create sys._git ___

[issue29775] There appears to be a spurious ^0 in sys.version for 3.6.1rc1

2017-03-09 Thread Paul Moore
New submission from Paul Moore: The 3.6.1rc1 build seems to have a spurious "^0" at the end of the version, before the VCS ID - 3.6.1rc1^0): >py -3.6 Python 3.6.1rc1 (v3.6.1rc1^0:e0fbe5feee4f9c00f09eb9659c2182183036261a, Mar 4 2017, 20:00:12) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 >>> sys.versi