[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6fdcfe348435 by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Use sys.version_info instead of sys.version in packaging. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6fdcfe348435 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0cc1fbbb473d by Éric Araujo in branch 'default': Use sys.version_info instead of sys.version. http://hg.python.org/distutils2/rev/0cc1fbbb473d -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6ea47522f466 by Éric Araujo in branch '3.2': Fix markup used in the documentation of sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6ea47522f466 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 9f6704da4abb by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7': Fix markup used in the documentation of sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9f6704da4abb -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Georg Brandl added the comment: I think it meant that '3.2' is the string used for determining the /usr/lib/python3.2 directory name. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Ask yourself: what are the first three characters? If that's not clear, type sys.version[:3]. Is it still unclear what this is talking about? -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Éric Araujo added the comment: Is “The first three characters are used to identify the version in the installation directories (where appropriate on each platform)” clear for anyone but me? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Georg Brandl added the comment: Yes, this is even better than my fix for #5778. Changed in r83358 to: A string containing the version number of the Python interpreter plus additional information on the build number and compiler used. This string is displayed when the interactive int

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I recommend to drop any specific guarantee of what the string looks like. Saying "svn info" is also going to be outdated soon, when the code becomes maintained in Mercurial. Instead, the documentation should point to sys.version_info and the platform module

[issue9442] Update sys.version doc

New submission from Éric Araujo : Attaching a patch to edit mention of “build number” in library/sys. I also don’t understand “The first three characters are used to identify the version in the installation directories (where appropriate on each platform)”, maybe someone who does could enlight