Is this just for readability to the developer? python

[Richard Brodie]

"David Stockwell" <winexpert at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In this example, it looks like only the '3.1' is actually passed to the
> function.  Which leads me to speculate that the rest of it is just there to
> make it easier for the developer when looking at source code to see what
> version of the module is being used.

It looks like that it may be for the benefit of CVS; manually updated
version numbers are a pain.

> The only thing I think i notice is its also passing a list of one element?

One element of a list; that's not quite the same thing.