[Python-Dev] versioning standards?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Greg Wilson writes:
 > Hi, folks.  Is there a standard or usual way to provide version
 > information inside a Python module or class?  Special tokens in
 > the doc string, a method like "getVersion"...?

  Modules sometimes offer a "__version__" attribute, which I've also
seen called "version" or "VERSION" in strange cases (xmllib and (I
think) PIL).


  -Fred

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