[issue21681] version string printed on STDERR

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[issue21681] version string printed on STDERR

Berker Peksag added the comment: This was fixed for Python 3.4 in issue 18338. See also https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.4.html#other-improvements for release notes. -- nosy: +berker.peksag ___ Python tracker

[issue21681] version string printed on STDERR

New submission from larkost: When getting the version of the Python interpreter with `python --version` the output is going to STDERR rather than STDOUT. This is non-standard behavior, and is surprising. For example I was writing a dependency into a makefile, and this behavior caused me a goo