[Distutils] Numeric-16.0 problem

[Paul F. Dubois]

> 
> import distutils
> if distutils.version_info < (0, 9):
>     bad_distutils_version()
> else:
>     setup(...)
> 
>   The definition of sys.version_info guarantees that the value
> monotonically increases with each new release so long as we don't
> change the numbering scheme, and comparisons against only the
> interesting prefix (as above) work reasonably.
> 
> 
>   -Fred
> 
And THAT works? comparison of tuples is lexographic? Really?
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