<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 27, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Marcus Smith <<a href="mailto:qwcode@gmail.com" class="">qwcode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>I'm starting a new thread to state cleanly what my current question/concern is...<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">per PEP440 as I understand it:<br class=""></div>- for ">1.7", "1.7" means roughly the "1.7 series" or "1.7*"<br class=""></div>- for ">=1.7", "1.7" means literally "1.7" (with zero-padding as needed)<br class=""><br class="">While I understand the motivation for the "series" conception of 1.7 to deal with prereleases, the resulting inconsistency in meaning for "1.7" is what concerns me. It's odd . Can someone make it not seem odd for "1.7 to change meanings just because you switch between >= and >?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And for anyone who wants to say that "1.7" also means the "1.7 series" for >=, note that 1.7 prereleases do not satisfy >=1.7<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would a solution be to make >= also use the series concept?, i.e. make pre-releases satisfy >=1.7<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>The equality operator pads zeros, >= has the equality operator as part of it.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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