On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:57:03 -0500 Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > Whatever your personal feelings, there is a precedent established in the API: > > >>> sys.version_info.major > 2 > >>> sys.version_info.minor > 7 > >>> sys.version_info.micro > 1 > > This strikes me as the most authoritative definition of the terms, in the > context of Python. (Although the fact that this precedent is widely > established elsewhere doesn't hurt.)
While authoritative, it is still counter-intuitive and misleading for some people (including Nick and me, apparently). I never use the field names myself, I use version_info as a 3-tuple. > Whatever term is chosen, the important thing is to apply the terminology > consistently so that it's clear what is meant. I doubt that anyone has a > term which every reader will intuitively and immediately associate with > "middle dot-separated digit increment by one". I changed the terminology in my latest changeset: http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/f39d063ab3dd Important to notice is that the major / minor distinction isn't relevant in most contexts, while the feature / bugfix distinction is. Where "major" plays a role, we can simply avoid the term by talking about Python 2 and Python 3, which is more explicit too. I doubt this needs to be revisited before 10 years anyway. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
