[Python-Dev] Module version variable

Wed Mar 16 20:00:38 CET 2011

On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:33 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> On 2011年3月16日 13:33:20 -0400, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at 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 unittest also has an outdated (and unmaintained) version number that I 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