diff --git a/Lib/xml/__init__.py b/Lib/xml/__init__.py
index 7245b7e2c9c..d189823620d 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ __all__ = ["dom", "parsers", "sax"]
 # When being checked-out without options, this has the form
 # "<dollar>Revision: x.y </dollar>"
 # When exported using -kv, it is "x.y".
-__version__ = "$Revision$".split()[-2][0]
+__version__ = "$Revision$".split()[-2:][0]
 
 
 _MINIMUM_XMLPLUS_VERSION = (0, 6, 1)