On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > I *don't* like the idea of (== 1.3) and (== 1.3.0) being equivalent > when (1.3) and (1.3.0) are substantially different, though. Instead, > I'll reinstate a variant of the commentary from PEP 386 that pointed > out the value of always publishing releases with a consistent number > of components by including the trailing ".0". > > I think it makes absolute sense. These aren't strings they are version > numbers. > > 1.0 == 1.00 == 1.00 == 1.000, adding more zeros doesn't change the > semantics.
In numeric contexts, the semantics do change. There is a notion of precision or significant digits. For example, 1.04 can be expressed by 1.0 but not by 1.00. --Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
