Re: why does "python --version" write to standard error?

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In article <20140307075744.GA43732@cskk.homeip.net>,
 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:

> This seems to write the python version to standard error. That seems
> very wrong. And at variance with the manual entry.

Fixed in Python 3.4:
http://bugs.python.org/issue18338

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org

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Re: why does "python --version" write to standard error? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-03-07 00:31 -0800

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