[issue18338] option --version should send output to STDOUT

2013-07-01 Thread Christian Heimes
Christian Heimes added the comment: Your proposal is reasonable. I'm flagging it for Python 3.4+ as it's a backward incompatible modification. -- nosy: +christian.heimes stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 2.7 ___

[issue18338] option --version should send output to STDOUT

2013-07-01 Thread Jari Aalto
New submission from Jari Aalto: C.f. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603851 When user is calling program with options, it is not an error condition to run: python --version The output is now sent to stderr. Please change to send to stdout as in other *nix utilities, in