[Distutils] Normalized version confuses external tool (PyCharm)

[Donald Stufft]

On August 26, 2015 at 11:19:55 AM, Piotr Dobrogost (p at 2015.forums.dobrogost.net) wrote:
> Hi!
>  
> After `pip install js.deform==2.0a2-3` I get the message "Successfully
> installed js.deform-2.0a2.post3" where version "2.0a2-3" was
> normalized (I guess) to "2.0a2.post3" and that's the version pip list
> reports as well. Due to this PyCharm shows warning saying this
> requirement "js.deform==2.0a2-3" is not satisfied.
>  
> What is the preferred way of solving this? Should package version be
> changed by author to 2.0a2.post3?
>  
>

Well, I don’t know what PyCharm is doing, but ideally if their somehow interacting with the environment in a way that they care about Python version numbers, they should support PEP 440.

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