Tarek Ziadé wrote: > We said earlier that we could use sys.hexversion to handle this, but > otherwise, > at least for the Python version, we can use the StrictVersion() class > from Distutils, > > *But* we ended up thinking that it would be better for the first version to > keep > just "==", "!=", "in" and "not in" operators and a MAJOR.MINOR string. > > These are enough just to compare strings, on a limited number of > versions for Python. > > What use case you have in mind for a three numbers version ?
Although it is best to avoid depending on micro number, one recent use-case I can think about is the added MSVC runtime information at python level (between python 2.6.1 and 2.6.2), which we use in numpy to make sure we link the exact same C runtime as python. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
