> In my Python projects, I like to provide the version as a tuple which > can be used directly for comparison
To add to this, comparing tuples doesn't always work well for projects where multiple release lines are maintained simultaneously, e.g. user-facing changes introduced in minor/point releases across several major versions. People use version numbers in wildly different ways. Barney On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 13:26, Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 7:48 AM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So what do you'all think? After thirteen years, it would be nice to put > this to bed. > > There are two main use cases for versions: > > * Display them to the user > * Compare versions to check if one is newer, older or the same > > I dislike using strings for comparison. You need to use > packaging.version for that: > https://packaging.pypa.io/en/latest/version.html > > Many C libraries provide the version as a number of as 3 numbers > (major, minor, micro). In its C API, Python provides all of them: > > * PY_VERSION_HEX: single number > * (PY_MAJOR_VERSION, PY_MINOR_VERSION, PY_MICRO_VERSION, > PY_RELEASE_LEVEL, PY_RELEASE_SERIAL): as 5 numbers > * PY_VERSION: string > > In my Python projects, I like to provide the version as a tuple which > can be used directly for comparison: version_a <= version_b. Example: > > VERSION = (2, 2, 1) > __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION)) > > The tuple might contain strings like "beta" or "rc", as soon as > comparison makes sense ;-) Sadly, such tuple is no standardized. Which > part is the major version? How to format it as a string? > > Good luck with trying to standardize that ;-) > > Victor > -- > Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/MBBYB5AWX76O3TOUFATRKSU2QND2TPKS/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/4XWIWIKDJJRWVKNGIOENJ2ZJVQR4PP23/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
