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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-31 19:59:55 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-31 19:59:55 (GMT) |
| commit | 721507b315eb9bc0ec53b56cbbd8404e5abbd98b (patch) | |
| tree | be55bd83617410db8083f8b4bdc29d0ab0334e58 | |
| parent | e87c0e1eaf56a7e4e3d19eb89fd26e8c4a5217d3 (diff) | |
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#5778: document that sys.version can contain a newline.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 770c267..0e90ac0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -936,8 +936,9 @@ always available. A string containing the version number of the Python interpreter plus additional information on the build number and compiler used. It has a value of the form - ``'version (#build_number, build_date, build_time) [compiler]'``. The first - three characters are used to identify the version in the installation + ``'version (#build_number, build_date, build_time) [compiler]'``. There may be + a newline character preceding the opening bracket with of the compiler info. + The first three characters are used to identify the version in the installation directories (where appropriate on each platform). An example:: >>> import sys |