testtools does not conform to PEP 396 #541
Description
Migrated from Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1452436
Original Reporter: David Riddle
Date Created: 2015-05-06 20:23:48.053154+00:00
Status on Launchpad: Triaged
Importance: Wishlist
For our package management we use automated tooling to extract version numbers from python packages. I would like to request that you change the version attribute so that it conforms to PEP 396. Currently version returns a tuple according to PEP 396 it should return a string. From what I have seen it is common for the tuple form to be stored in version_info.
PEP 396 states:
#. When a module (or package) includes a version number, the version
SHOULD be available in the __version__ attribute.
#. The __version__ attribute's value SHOULD be a string.