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@hugovk hugovk commented Dec 13, 2025 •
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In the issue @vstinner said:

IMO it's a good idea to use the Python version as the HTTP server version.

However, the Python version is already part of the combined version string: "BaseHTTP/0.6 Python/3.15.0".

This is made up of:

    def version_string(self):
        """Return the server software version string."""
        return self.server_version + ' ' + self.sys_version

And the comments say server_version can be a name without a version:

    # The Python system version, truncated to its first component.
    sys_version = "Python/" + sys.version.split()[0]

    # The server software version.  You may want to override this.
    # The format is multiple whitespace-separated strings,
    # where each string is of the form name[/version].
    server_version = "BaseHTTP/" + __version__

So better to have something like "BaseHTTP Python/3.15.0" rather than "BaseHTTP/3.15.0 Python/3.15.0".


📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--142658.org.readthedocs.build/

  • Issue: Misleading __version__ attribute of modules in standard library #76007

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Deprecate __version__ attribute in http.server
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hugovk requested a review from AA-Turner as a code owner December 13, 2025 09:51
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@hugovk hugovk changed the title Deprecate __version__ attribute in http.server gh-76007: Deprecate __version__ attribute in http.server Dec 13, 2025
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Misleading __version__ attribute of modules in standard library #76007
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LGTM

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@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot added awaiting merge and removed awaiting core review labels Dec 13, 2025
hugovk and others added 2 commits December 13, 2025 16:59
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Fix typo
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Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]>
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Fix the typo I copied from
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hugovk enabled auto-merge (squash) December 13, 2025 15:00
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hugovk merged commit 170dac2 into python:main Dec 13, 2025
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gh-76007: Deprecate __version__ attribute in wsgiref.simple_server #142675
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