Newbie: standard way to add version, author and license to a source file?

[Rui Maciel]

Is there any PEP that establishes a standard way to specify the version
number of a source code file, as well as its authors and what license it's
distributed under?


Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel

 

[Robert Kern]

Is there any PEP that establishes a standard way to specify the version
number of a source code file, as well as its authors and what license it's
distributed under?

As for versions:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0396/

For licenses and author:

http://producingoss.com/en/license-quickstart.html#license-quickstart-applying

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
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