can i examine the svn rev used to build a python 3 executable?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   i'm currently checking out python3 from the svn repo, configuring,
> building and installing under /usr/local/bin on my fedora 12 system,
> all good.
>
>   i'm curious, though -- is there a query i can make of that
> executable that would tell me what svn rev it was built from?  i'm
> guessing not, but i thought i'd ask.

  never mind.  just discovered that while "python3 -V" won't do it,
executing it gives me:

$ python3
Python 3.2a0 (py3k:77609, Jan 19 2010, 04:10:16)
...

and it's that 77609 rev number i was after.

rday
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