Tres Seaver wrote:
I'm not even sure why you would want __version__ in 99% of modules: in the ordinary cases, a module's version should be either the Python version (for a module shipped in the stdlib), or the release of the distribution which shipped it.
It's useful to be able to find out the version of a module you're using at run time so you can cope with API changes. I had a case just recently where the behaviour of something in pywin32 changed between one release and the next. I looked for an attribute called 'version' or something similar to test, but couldn't find anything. +1 on having a standard place to look for version info. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
