[Python-Dev] PEP 509 (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 12 17:57:15 EST 2016

On 1/12/2016 5:24 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 01/12/2016 01:34 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

2016-01-12 19:52 GMT+01:00 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:

[1] We're not going to call it version are we? Seems like cachetoken is a much better name.

While I understand the rationale against version, it strikes me as a better description of what it is, and easier on the brain than cache_token. Maybe there is something even better, such as seqnum. This is literally what the attribute is, a sequence/revision number, as with the Python repository, without the connotations of 'version', as in 'Python version'. Each commit to CPython changes the repository state without changing the 'version'. A dict.update may run thru 1000s of sequence numbers, but only the final result is a 'version' from the programmers point of view.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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