Comments in pickles?

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 1:23 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
> Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> Our usual practice is to imbed the CVS id string ($Id: ) in every
> >> checked-in file as a comment.
> >
> > I encourage you to question that practice.
>
> This is getting a little off-topic, but why do you say that?  It's the
> most convenient way I know of to identify a file when you're looking at
> it.

Later in his reponse, Tim encourages you to store the information in something 
that isn't just turfed during parsing: a string. A good place to store that 
is in a string called "version" at the module toplevel. Another is just in 
the module docstring, if you don't need to access the version directly.


   Richard