[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 34d2fb56de9a by R David Murray in branch '2.7': #11901: post-commit review fixes per Georg Brandl http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/34d2fb56de9a New changeset 2ddb4d6f826a by R David Murray in branch '3.1': #11901: post-commit review fixes per Georg

[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks! I tidied up the ReST formatting a bit and changed the bit numbering to the more standard left to right order (standard for bit fields...I realize hexversion is a number, but conceptually one deals with it as a bit field). -- resolution: ->

[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 48758cd0769b by R David Murray in branch '2.7': #11901: add description of how bitfields are laid out to hexversion docs http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/48758cd0769b New changeset b84384fbdbf0 by R David Murray in branch '3.1': #11901: add descrip

[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

Sijin Joseph added the comment: Fixed minor typo. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21775/11901.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

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[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

Sijin Joseph added the comment: Patch attached. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +sijinjoseph Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21774/11901.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

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[issue11901] Docs for sys.hexversion should give the algorithm

New submission from R. David Murray : I went to write a test that would trigger something if it was run on 3.3.0, and had to look in the source code to figure out what the hexversion for that would be. I think the hexversion algorithm should be documented in its sys entry. -- assignee