[issue28160] Python -V and --version output to stderr instead of stdout

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[issue28160] Python -V and --version output to stderr instead of stdout

Yaron Goland added the comment: Fair enough. Thanks for looking at it! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Uns

[issue28160] Python -V and --version output to stderr instead of stdout

Berker Peksag added the comment: Thanks for the report. This was already done in Python 3.4. See https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.4.html#changes-in-python-command-behavior and issue 18338 for details. Backporting this to 2.7 would break backwards compatibility so that means we can't chan

[issue28160] Python -V and --version output to stderr instead of stdout

Yaron Goland added the comment: To be fair it turns out that Java also outputs its version to stderr. Still seems wrong. It's not an error! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue28160] Python -V and --version output to stderr instead of stdout

New submission from Yaron Goland: When running python -V or --version the output goes to stderr instead of stdout. Unless python thinks its version is an err shouldn't the result go to stdout? -- components: Macintosh messages: 276496 nosy: Yaron Goland, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren prior