<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Wayne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srilyk@gmail.com">srilyk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Steve Willoughby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@alchemy.com" target="_blank">steve@alchemy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:42:04AM -0500, Wayne wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Christian Witts <<a href="mailto:cwitts@compuscan.co.za" target="_blank">cwitts@compuscan.co.za</a>>wrote:<br>
</div><div>> if sys.version < '2.4':<br>
> sys.exit("Need at least Python 2.4")<br>
><br>
> AFAIK the string comparison is reliable<br>
<br>
</div>Not quite. What happens when you compare '2.4' and '2.10'?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><div>>>> '2.4' > '2.10'</div><div>True</div></div></div></blockquote>
<div>That was his point, 2.4 should be a lesser version than 2.10, so it should not ask you to upgrade if you have 2.10, but this code will. </div></div>