[Distutils] Avoiding cursed versions...

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

Thanks James, sorry for the n00b level question.

On 9 March 2016 at 15:59, James Polley <jp at jamezpolley.com> wrote:

> pandas!=0.17.0,>=0.16.0
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> should do what you need, I think
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> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg <
> tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm not aware of a way to avoid 'cursed versions' of packages. For
>> example, pandas 0.17.0 has an issue with duplicate rows. This bug is fixed
>> in 0.17.1, but also the previous version was fine. I apologies if there is
>> logic to handle this situation.
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>> I would like to express this as a "latest version but not 0.17.0". This
>> is because 'latest' might mean different things depending where you are
>> getting your versions from (e.g. anaconda, pypi, OS packages).
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>> I don't know what to suggest, but I thought this was an interesting use
>> case and worth mentioning.
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