[Python-Dev] PEP 405 (pyvenv) and system Python upgrades

Tue May 8 12:50:08 CEST 2012

Carl Meyer <carl <at> oddbird.net> writes:
> The "version" key could in theory be useful to know whether a particular 
> venv created by that Python has or has not yet been upgraded to match, 
> but since the upgrade is trivial and idempotent I don't think that is 
> important.

Agreed it's not essential, but it also provides some useful information about
the version (for a user, rather than the update script) without actually having
to invoke the interpreter to check.
Regards,
Vinay Sajip