[Distutils] PEP440: >1.7 vs >=1.7

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Dec 28 03:05:23 CET 2014


> On Dec 27, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The equality operator pads zeros, >= has the equality operator as part of it.
> 
> 
> right, but that's not really an answer.
> Does the conceptual inconsistency phase you at all?
> 


In gives me a minor bit of pause. However any alternative that I can come up
with bothers me more, especially since I don't believe many people actually
even *use* a bare > and any alternative I can come up with has worse behavior
for operators which get much more use.

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