Fredrik Lundh writes: >> Define version_info to be a tuple (major, minor, micro, level); level >> is a string "a2", "b1", "c1", or '' for a final release. >maybe level should be chosen so that version_info for a final >release is larger than version_info for the corresponding beta ? 'a2' < 'b1' < 'c1' < 'final' --amk