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[Python-Dev] some minor questions about pep8

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Mar 21 21:53:50 CET 2015 
On Mar 20, 2015, at 08:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>FWIW, I think __version__, __author__ etc. were bad ideas. Almost nobody
>manages these correctly. Note that the PEP 8 section starts with less than
>an endorsement: "If you *have* to have Subversion, CVS, or RCS crud in your
>source file, do it as follows."

I tend to agree.  Individual module version numbers are mostly useless,
especially with today's hash-based vcses.

That's different than package versions, and for which I really need to
resurrect and update PEP 396.

>That said, if an official answer is required, common sense would suggest
>that __version__ should go before the imports. (I would put it before the
>docstring too, except then the docstring wouldn't be a docstring any more.
>Go figure.)

And after __future__ imports too, right?

Cheers,
-Barry
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