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[Guido van Rossum]

> I wasnt planning to *remove* the __version__ attributes, only the
> code which breaks if they have the short form. Removing them
> completely may be easier however.....

Either way.  (As long as removing the __version__ variables doesn't
break more code.)

In C, the code computing __version__ caused a segfault; in Python, at
worst it assigns a garbage string (e.g. "").

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)