Changes by Oliver Smith <smartt...@mailinator.com>:
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components: +Distutils
nosy: +dstufft, merwok
type: -> behavior
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New submission from Oliver Smith:
This should return True and not raise an exception:
>>> from distutils.version import LooseVersion
>>> LooseVersion("22.7-r1") < LooseVersion("22.7.3-r1")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1,
Oliver Smith added the comment:
The term optional arguments is a poorly formed adjectival suffix of option.
What it's trying to say is these are kwargs rather than these arguments are
not compulsory.
I ran into this issue with 3.4 and was looking to file a simple change request:
In early DOS
