From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:05:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #9442: do not document a specific format for sys.version; rather refer to version_inf... 
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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 0e90ac07fa..4d85099f79 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