def _sys_version():
    global _sys_version_cache

    if _sys_version_cache is not None:
        return _sys_version_cache
    version, buildno, builddate, buildtime, compiler = \
             _sys_version_parser.match(sys.version).groups()
    builddate = builddate + ' ' + buildtime
    l = string.split(version, '.')
    if len(l) == 2:
        l.append('0')
        version = string.join(l, '.')
    _sys_version_cache = (version, buildno, builddate, compiler)
    return _sys_version_cache
Returns a parsed version of Python's sys.version as tuple
dataset/ETHPy150Open babble/babble/include/jython/Lib/platform.py/_sys_version