On Mar 18, 2011, at 08:50 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >I do distinctly recall __version__ being standardized for other >purposes too, but I have no idea how to find that reference... It >probably was well before 2000.
FWIW, I went spelunking in my email archives and the earliest reference to __version__ I found was in a file called subproc.py posted to comp.lang.python by Ken Manheimer. It contained a CVS expanded $Revision$ keyword. The message is dated January 12, 1995. -Barry
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