@@ -36,18 +36,6 @@ always available.
3636 little-endian (least-significant byte first) platforms.
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39- .. data :: subversion
40-
41- A triple (repo, branch, version) representing the Subversion information of the
42- Python interpreter. *repo * is the name of the repository, ``'CPython' ``.
43- *branch * is a string of one of the forms ``'trunk' ``, ``'branches/name' `` or
44- ``'tags/name' ``. *version * is the output of ``svnversion ``, if the interpreter
45- was built from a Subversion checkout; it contains the revision number (range)
46- and possibly a trailing 'M' if there were local modifications. If the tree was
47- exported (or svnversion was not available), it is the revision of
48- ``Include/patchlevel.h `` if the branch is a tag. Otherwise, it is ``None ``.
49-
50-
5139.. data :: builtin_module_names
5240
5341 A tuple of strings giving the names of all modules that are compiled into this
@@ -982,6 +970,24 @@ always available.
982970 to a console and Python apps started with :program: `pythonw `.
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973+ .. data :: subversion
974+
975+ A triple (repo, branch, version) representing the Subversion information of the
976+ Python interpreter. *repo * is the name of the repository, ``'CPython' ``.
977+ *branch * is a string of one of the forms ``'trunk' ``, ``'branches/name' `` or
978+ ``'tags/name' ``. *version * is the output of ``svnversion ``, if the interpreter
979+ was built from a Subversion checkout; it contains the revision number (range)
980+ and possibly a trailing 'M' if there were local modifications. If the tree was
981+ exported (or svnversion was not available), it is the revision of
982+ ``Include/patchlevel.h `` if the branch is a tag. Otherwise, it is ``None ``.
983+
984+ .. deprecated :: 3.2.1
985+ Python is now `developed <http://docs.python.org/devguide/ >`_ using
986+ Mercurial. In recent Python 3.2 bugfix releases, :data: `subversion `
987+ therefore contains placeholder information. It is removed in Python
988+ 3.3.
989+
990+
985991.. data :: tracebacklimit
986992
987993 When this variable is set to an integer value, it determines the maximum number
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