[Distutils] Are chained comparisons allowed in environment markers?

[Vinay Sajip]

Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Surely getting farther away from python by trying to prohibit useless
> makers just makes the implementation needlessly complex.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "useless" markers. For example, distlib
checks for e.g. "'2' == '2'" and e.g. "'os.name' == 'os.name'" as these are
pointless to include in an environment marker, but that's only on the basis
that (probable) errors shouldn't pass silently.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip