[Distutils] [Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:03:45PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Floris Bruynooghe
> <floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's not a bad idea, how about defining python_version as:
> >
> >  '%.8X' % sys.hexversion
> >
> > Then using '<' and '>' would work again I think, just a little harder
> > to use.  (Of course don't forget the bikeshedding about the name:
> > python_hexversion, hexversion, ...)
> 
> What about having both in that case ? a regular python version
> and the one you mention in python_hexversion.
> 
> The documentation will state that python_hexversion can be used with
> '<' and '>'

That works too of course.


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