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

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Date	Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:06:31 +1100
From	Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 07Mar2014 00:31, Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:
> 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

Excellent! My thanks to Berker Peksag and Michael Dickens and the
other ticket participants.
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Re: why does "python --version" write to standard error? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-03-07 21:06 +1100

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