On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:51:11PM -0500, Cleber Rosa wrote: > > > On 11/9/18 1:25 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > >> > >> "Python -V" is quite different from "sys.version". Indeed it includes > >> the "Python " prefix, but that's all, everything else is the version > >> number. > > > > Is this a guarantee documented somewhere? > > > > Oops, looks like I missed that comment, and failed to address it. Now, > I must say I don't expect a documented guarantee about this will exist, > but it looks like this is an acknowledged use case: > > https://bugs.python.org/issue18338
Well, considering that it even has a unit test checking for a specific format[1], I think the usage in this patch can be considered acceptable. [1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e6384b8b2325 -- Eduardo
