changeset: 85573:587bdb940524 user: Eli Bendersky date: Fri Sep 06 06:55:58 2013 -0700 files: Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst description: Update whatsnew/3.4 wrt. --version going to stdout. #18338, #18920, #18922 diff -r ec9a4b77f37b -r 587bdb940524 Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst Fri Sep 06 06:49:15 2013 -0700 +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst Fri Sep 06 06:55:58 2013 -0700 @@ -428,6 +428,13 @@ (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou and Éric Araujo in :issue:`5845`.) +Python invocation changes +========================= + +Invoking the Python interpreter with ``--version`` now outputs the version to +standard output instead of standard error (:issue:`18338`). Similar changes +were made to :mod:`argparse` (:issue:`18920`) and other modules that have +script-like invocation capabilities (:issue:`18922`). Optimizations =============