[Python-Dev] do people use sys._mercurial?

[Brett Cannon]

It seems that people do use the values so there will be a sys._git
attribute.

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 at 19:57 Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 18:44, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > Since we are going to be switching over to Git, sys._mercurial is going
> to be made to return a dummy value of `('CPython', '', '')` once we switch
> to Git. But my question is do we bother to replace it with sys._git? I
> wanted to make sure that the effort is worth it to keep changing these
> VCS-specific attributes every time we change our VCS (and no, we are not
> going to adopt a generic one; already had that debate). So do please speak
> up if you actually have found value from sys._mercurial.
>
> As long as the git revision tag (if any) and hash show up in sys.version
> and the interpreter interactive (REPL) mode header as they do today with hg
> and previously with svn (that is, when the interpreter is built from a vcs
> checkout), I'm happy:
>
> $ python3
> Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec  5 2015, 21:12:44)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>
>
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