From 7177657bf2dae89cff8c7d4b2b636ee4287ad6f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 14:00:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added sys.version object.

---
 Python/sysmodule.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 69489c84f67..ef93d2095f9 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ void
 initsys()
 {
 	extern int fclose PROTO((FILE *));
+	extern char version[];
+	object *v = newstringobject(version);
 	object *m = initmodule("sys", sys_methods);
 	sysdict = getmoduledict(m);
 	INCREF(sysdict);
@@ -124,13 +126,15 @@ initsys()
 	sysout = newopenfileobject(stdout, "<stdout>", "w", fclose);
 	syserr = newopenfileobject(stderr, "<stderr>", "w", fclose);
 	if (err_occurred())
-		fatal("can't create sys.std* file objects");
+		fatal("can't create sys.* objects");
 	dictinsert(sysdict, "stdin", sysin);
 	dictinsert(sysdict, "stdout", sysout);
 	dictinsert(sysdict, "stderr", syserr);
+	dictinsert(sysdict, "version", v);
 	dictinsert(sysdict, "modules", get_modules());
 	if (err_occurred())
 		fatal("can't insert sys.* objects in sys dict");
+	DECREF(v);
 }
 
 static object *