[Python-Dev] Expose Subversion revision number to Python

Fri Dec 16 11:30:27 CET 2005

Armin Rigo wrote:
> What about having instead:
>> sys.build_info = ("CPython", <svn rev>, "trunk")
>> This would make it clear that it's the CPython svn rev number, and it
> could possibly be used to distinguish between branches, too, which the
> revision number alone cannot do. ("trunk" is the last part of the path
> returned by "svn info".)

+1
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