78 chars per line are enough! Period.

[Peter Funk]

quoted from the patch submission guide lines pages on www.python.org:

   Make sure all lines fit in 78 columns.

I can't agree more.  I'm so old, that I still remember my punch card times :)

Now let's see how it looks, when I fire up Python on my computer:

$ python
Python 1.5.2+ (#2, Feb 14 2000, 08:50:31)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.
2 release)] on linux2 
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> 

Am I the only one bothered by this excedingly long and ugly broken line?
Since SuSE sells more than 100,000 copies of their Linux CDs each time, 
I think there must be more people, which see such an overly verbose prompt.

Now after several years I thought, it must be easy to fix this anoying
detail had look into the sources.  I think this can be done in 
.../src/Python/getversion.c.  However, Py_GetVersion can also be accessed 
through the 'sys' builtin module.  

Now I wonder, whether it would break any existing python applications,
if Py_GetVersion would return a string containing a newline.

Regards, Peter
P.S.: I feel nitpicking today. ;-)
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