[Python-Dev] Expose Subversion revision number to Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

Armin Rigo wrote:

> What about having instead:
>
>     sys.build_info = ("CPython", <svn rev>, "trunk")
>
> This would make it clear that it's the CPython svn rev number, and it
> could possibly be used to distinguish between branches, too, which the
> revision number alone cannot do.  ("trunk" is the last part of the path
> returned by "svn info".)

+1

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