[Python-Dev] Re: CVS: python/dist/src/Python sysmodule.c,2.59,2.60

[Fredrik Lundh]

> Fredrik Lundh writes:
>  > maybe level should be chosen so that version_info for a final
>  > release is larger than version_info for the corresponding beta ?
>=20
>   I thought about that, but didn't like it; should it perhaps be
> 'final'?  If the purpose is to simply make it increase monotonically
> like sys.hexversion, why not just use sys.hexversion?

readability?

the sys.hexversion stuff isn't exactly obvious:

>>> dir(sys)
... 'hexversion' ...
>>> sys.hexversion
17170594

eh?  is that version 1.71, or what?

"final" is okay, I think.  better than "f0", at least ;-)

</F>