diff --git a/Lib/tokenize.py b/Lib/tokenize.py
index 789d1305313..5281b28c428 100644
--- a/Lib/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/tokenize.py
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 designed to match the working of the Python tokenizer exactly, except that
 it produces COMMENT tokens for comments and gives type OP for all operators."""
 
-__version__ = "Ka-Ping Yee, 26 October 1997; patched, GvR 3/30/98"
+__author__ = 'Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>'
+__credits__ = 'first version, 26 October 1997; patched, GvR 3/30/98'
 
 import string, re
 from token import *