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Is this just for readability to the developer? python

David Stockwell winexpert at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 2 09:37:25 EDT 2004 
Thanks for the help.

It makes it easier that its automated....



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>From: "Miki Tebeka" <miki.tebeka at zoran.com>
>To: David Stockwell <winexpert at hotmail.com>
>CC: python-list at python.org
>Subject: Re: Is this just for readability to the developer? python
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:25:19 +0200
>
>Hello David,
>
> > initModule( "$Revision: 3.1 $".split(" ")[1] )
> > ...
> > In this example, it looks like only the '3.1' is actually passed to the
> > function.  Which leads me to speculate that the rest of it is just there 
>to
> > make it easier for the developer when looking at source code to see what
> > version of the module is being used.
> >
> > The only thing I think i notice is its also passing a list of one 
>element?
> >
> > Is this a typical way to do this in python?
>The $Revision: ...$ is expaned by CVS/Subversion/... when you check in a
>file (These are called "RCS keywords", see
>http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/cvs-1.11.5-ds/cvsbook/main_162.html#SEC192).
>This way the revision is actually maintined by the source control system.
>
>Bye.
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>Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at zoran.com>
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