[Eric Mathew Hopper]
> I have a patch that allows pydoc to deal with Subversion
> (http://www.subversion.tigris.org) style version strings.
That's good, but please upload it to Python's patch manager:
http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470
Mailing lists, and Ping's inbox <wink>, are black holes for patches.