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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2011-04-25 20:10:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2011-04-25 20:10:18 (GMT) |
| commit | a0895db2e1e94a7a2dfba4f75475975720aae224 (patch) | |
| tree | 9900a491999976583c55d6d8a49533b195b5731d | |
| parent | f93bb262eb52803cad52b87728f5c8094207c2cb (diff) | |
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#11901: add description of how bitfields are laid out to hexversion docs
Patch by Sijin Joseph.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sys.rst | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 12f861b..1598d96 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -562,6 +562,30 @@ always available. ``version_info`` value may be used for a more human-friendly encoding of the same information. + The ``hexversion`` is a 32-bit number with the following layout + + +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ + | bits (big endian order) | meaning | + +=========================+================================================+ + | :const:`1-8` | ``PY_MAJOR_VERSION`` (the ``2`` in | + | | ``2.1.0a3``) | + +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ + | :const:`9-16` | ``PY_MINOR_VERSION`` (the ``1`` in | + | | ``2.1.0a3``) | + +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ + | :const:`17-24` | ``PY_MICRO_VERSION`` (the ``0`` in | + | | ``2.1.0a3``) | + +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ + | :const:`25-28` | ``PY_RELEASE_LEVEL`` (``0xA`` for alpha, | + | | ``0xB`` for beta, ``0xC`` for gamma and | + | | ``0xF`` for final) | + +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ + | :const:`29-32` | ``PY_RELEASE_SERIAL`` (the ``3`` in | + | | ``2.1.0a3``) | + +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ + + thus ``2.1.0a3`` is hexversion ``0x020100a3`` + .. versionadded:: 1.5.2 @@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ Irmen de Jong Lucas de Jonge John Jorgensen Jens B. Jorgensen +Sijin Joseph Andreas Jung Tattoo Mabonzo K. Bob Kahn |