On Mar 22, 2011, at 02:38 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>All trails eventually lead to Ken! :-)
Indeed!
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:30:09PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> a file called subproc.py posted to comp.lang.python
> by Ken Manheimer.
Can you believe - I still use the module?! (-:
Oleg.
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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 wa
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
__ve
On 22/03/2011 8:09 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
I started an Informational PEP on this at Pycon, and will try to finish a
draft of it this week. (I'm claiming 396 for it.)
We nearly had a race for that number! FYI, I just checked in pep-0397
leaving 396 for you :)
Cheers,
Mark
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On Mar 19, 2011, at 01:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:12:19 -0700
>Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> There is a section in PEP8 about __version__ but it serves a slightly
>> different purpose there:
>>
>> """
>> Version Bookkeeping
>>
>> If you have to have Subversion, CVS, or
On Mar 18, 2011, at 07:40 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Greg Ewing
>wrote:
>> 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
> 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.
Maybe you were thinking about Pydoc, which will display __version__ in a
dedicated section of the doc.
Regards
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:12:19 -0700
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> There is a section in PEP8 about __version__ but it serves a slightly
> different purpose there:
>
> """
> Version Bookkeeping
>
> If you have to have Subversion, CVS, or RCS crud in your source file, do
> it as follows.
>
>
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:40:43PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Greg Ewing
>> wrote:
>> > Tres Seaver wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm not even sure why you would want __version__ in 99% of modules: in
>> >> th
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:40:43PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Greg Ewing
> wrote:
> > 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
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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
>> distr
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 th
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On 03/16/2011 06:15 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On 3/16/2011 5:54 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Raymond Hettinger
>> wrote:
>> ..
>>> The version number in the decimal module refers to the version of the
>>> spec tha
On 3/16/2011 5:54 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Raymond Hettinger
wrote:
..
The version number in the decimal module refers to the version of the
spec that is being complied with. I would like that version number
to remain in the module.
I mentioned this i
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Raymond Hettinger
wrote:
..
> The version number in the decimal module refers to the version of the
> spec that is being complied with. I would like that version number
> to remain in the module.
I mentioned this in my first post. If the version number of the s
On 16/03/2011 15:00, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:33 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:33:20 -0400, Michael Foord
wrote:
On 16/03/2011 12:39, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
interested) when I noticed
On 16/03/2011 14:33, R. David Murray wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:33:20 -0400, Michael Foord
wrote:
On 16/03/2011 12:39, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
interested) when I noticed that it has the following line:
_ver = "turtle 1.1b- -
On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:33 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:33:20 -0400, Michael Foord
> wrote:
>> On 16/03/2011 12:39, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>>> I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
>>> interested) when I noticed that it has the following line:
>>
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:33:20 -0400, Michael Foord
wrote:
> On 16/03/2011 12:39, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> > I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
> > interested) when I noticed that it has the following line:
> >
> > _ver = "turtle 1.1b- - for Python 3.1 - 4. 5. 2009"
On 16/03/2011 12:39, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
interested) when I noticed that it has the following line:
_ver = "turtle 1.1b- - for Python 3.1 - 4. 5. 2009"
unittest also has an outdated (and unmaintained) version number that I
On 16/03/2011 12:53, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
interested) when I noticed that it has the following line:
_ver = "turtle 1.1b- - for Python 3.1 - 4. 5. 2009"
This is obviously ou
On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
>interested) when I noticed that it has the following line:
>
>_ver = "turtle 1.1b- - for Python 3.1 - 4. 5. 2009"
>
>This is obviously out of date and this variable is not use
I was editing the turtle module (for issue11571, if you are
interested) when I noticed that it has the following line:
_ver = "turtle 1.1b- - for Python 3.1 - 4. 5. 2009"
This is obviously out of date and this variable is not used anywhere
in the module. I would simply delete it, but I wonder
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