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by Mehdi2277 941 days ago
23 comes from 2023. Pip uses calendar based versioning. The 23.3.1 means 2023, 3rd quarter, second release. The last number is for bug fix release. The first two numbers are purely date based and do not follow semvar.
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D'oh. All those years I've never noticed that. Thanks for the info.