[Docutils-develop] Feature sniffing better than `sys.hexversion`?

[Beni C. <cb...@us...>]

It seems to me that the use of `sys.hexversion` is unhealthy.  I don't
think that it's value on Jython, PyPy or any other future Python
implementation would correspond exactly to the specific features we
need.  Does anybody object to me replacing the cases where it's used 
with try blocks checking for the specific feature?

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Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@us...>
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