Issue #12306: Add ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION to the zlib module.

While we're at it, also document ZLIB_VERSION.

Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
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Nadeem Vawda 2011-09-12 00:04:13 +02:00
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@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ The available exception and functions in this module are:
won't fit into memory at once. The *wbits* parameter controls the size of the
window buffer.
Compression objects support the following methods:
@ -217,6 +218,26 @@ Decompression objects support the following methods and attributes:
seeks into the stream at a future point.
Information about the version of the zlib library in use is available through
the following constants:
.. data:: ZLIB_VERSION
The version string of the zlib library that was used for building the module.
This may be different from the zlib library actually used at runtime, which
is available as :const:`ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION`.
.. versionadded:: 3.3
.. data:: ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION
The version string of the zlib library actually loaded by the interpreter.
.. versionadded:: 3.3
.. seealso::
Module :mod:`gzip`