On 4/15/2021 12:38 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Apr 14, 2021, at 23:11, Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:

You wrote the original PEP, so of course you can withdraw it (or reject it), 
but...

Are you sure? See this discussion, I don't think it's as simple as all
that.

 From a library maintainers point of view, I personally want to get away from 
using __version__ strings at all.  They’re kind of a pain to remember to bump 
on every new release.

At least some in the stdlib have not been. For re.__version__, not since Nov 2001.


--
Terry Jan Reedy


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