[Distutils] Requirent specifiers specified? :)

[Jim Fulton]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 04:52 PM 6/21/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
...

> I was going to say, of course, and give you a link, but I'm surprised to 
> discover there's nothing I can find.  Which is weird because I *know* I 
> wrote something. 

I thought you did too.

 > However I suspect it was originally on the PythonEggs
> wiki page, and it didn't get transferred to the PkgResources or 
> setuptools pages before being deleted.
> 
> Ah, yes, that's in fact the case.  Here's the missing paragraph, grabbed 
> from the wiki history:
> 
> """Requirement strings basically consist of a distribution name, an 
> optional list of "options" (more on this in a moment), and a 
> comma-separated list of zero or more version conditions. Version 
> conditions basically specify ranges of valid versions, using comparison 
> operators. The version conditions you supply are sorted into ascending 
> version order, and then scanned left to right until the package's 
> version falls between a pair of > or >= and < or <= conditions, or 
> exactly matches a == or != condition."""

OK, this is something.  I'm sure what "ascending version order" is.
In ascending version order, what is the ordering of:

   <1.2, >1.2, ==1.2, <=1.2, >=1.2, and !=1.2

?

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