From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:42:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Use Guido's trick for always extracting the version number from a
X-Git-Tag: v2.1c1~228
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9494ac0fff1c37b5c3f457977230b7e51cb04f3;p=python

Use Guido's trick for always extracting the version number from a
CVS Revision string correctly, even under -kv.
---

diff --git a/Lib/xml/__init__.py b/Lib/xml/__init__.py
index b26d378cfe..7245b7e2c9 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/__init__.py
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ sax -- The Simple API for XML, developed by XML-Dev, led by David
 
 __all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax"]
 
-__version__ = "$Revision$".split()[1]
+# When being checked-out without options, this has the form
+# "<dollar>Revision: x.y </dollar>"
+# When exported using -kv, it is "x.y".
+__version__ = "$Revision$".split()[-2][0]
 
 
 _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 6, 1)