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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-31 20:05:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-31 20:05:31 (GMT) |
| commit | e42a59daec40d1238a0189cde735f97aebe2d0b7 (patch) | |
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| parent | 721507b315eb9bc0ec53b56cbbd8404e5abbd98b (diff) | |
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#9442: do not document a specific format for sys.version; rather refer to version_info and the platform module.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 0e90ac0..4d85099 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -935,15 +935,10 @@ always available. .. data:: version 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]'``. 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 - >>> sys.version - '1.5.2 (#0 Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)]' + information on the build number and compiler used. This string is displayed + when the interactive interpreter is started. Do not extract version information + out of it, rather, use :data:`version_info` and the functions provided by the + :mod:`platform` module. .. data:: api_version |