On 24 January 2016 at 10:29, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > Some discussion happened on core-workflow@, otherwise you can look through > the python-dev archives for when we added sys._mercurial.
We actually forgot one relevant point in those discussions: there's already a generic API for accessing this information in the platform module. At the sys module level, though, the key point is that the precise semantic interpretation is VCS dependent, so changing the variable name conveys immediately to users both that the semantics have changed, and which VCS is now being used to define them. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
