howto use pydev field __updated__?

Question

I'd like to have some field, (a variable, or string, anything else), in my source code (a Python module), that keep track of last update in this module, when i save it after some modification. This image shows it looks possible in preferences

Where do i put this __updated__="here some date" field ?

• I've tried to put it as a global (module level) variable
• I've tried to put in the module docstring (as @__updated__:'', @__updated__='', __updated__:'', __updated__='') and so on...

thank you

Answer 1

I've just tried adding:

__updated__ = "2010-10-10"

and saving the file updated the date after having the related setting enabled (note that the initial date format must already match it, as not all __updated__ = "something" will be replaced, only the ones that match yyyy-MM-dd).

So, my guess is that you didn't start with a valid date there...