[Python-checkins] commit of r41744 - in python/trunk: Doc/api/init.tex Doc/lib/libsys.tex Include/pythonrun.h Mac Makefile.pre.in Misc/NEWS Modules/getbuildinfo.c Python/sysmodule.c

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 20:04 -0800, Neal Norwitz wrote:
>> This change break test_platform.  The problem is the
>> _sys_version_parser regex and _sys_version() can't handle a
>> non-number.
> 
> Yep, and thanks for fixing that.  Saw your checkin -- you just beat me
> to it. ;)

I wouldn't be surprised if other tools out there parse the
sys.version string in a similar way. Wouldn't it be better
to keep the old format (after all, the Subversion revision number
is a single number as well - just like the old buildno) ?!

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