None of these have seen much adoption, so I think we can lose them without
dire consequences. The info should be moved into a docstring or comment.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:54 Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Some module attributes in the stdlib have attribute __version__. It
> makes sense if the module is developed independently from Python, but
> after inclusion in the stdlib it no longer have separate releases which
> should be identified by version. New changes goes into module usually
> without changing the value of __version__. Different versions of the
> module for different Python version can have different features but the
> same __version__.
>
> I propose to remove __version__ in all stdlib modules. Are there any
> exceptions?
>
> Also, what do you think about other meta attributes like __author__,
> __credits__, __email__, __copyright__, __about__, __date__?
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