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

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > I can imagine a remote possibility of more than 9 pre-releases
 > (counting from 1), but not more than 15 (since PY_RELEASE_SERIAL has
 > to fit in 4 bits), so at the very least, make that string 'a02',
 > 'a03', etc.

  Doesn't this further damage the human readability of the value?  I
thought that was an important reason to break it up from
sys.hexversion.  (Note also that you're not just saying more than 9
pre-releases, but more than 9 at any one of alpha, beta, or release
candidate stages.  1-9 at each stage is already 27 pre-release
packages.)


  -Fred

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