[Python-Dev] PEP 396, Module Version Numbers

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 07, 2011, at 09:13 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

>Barry -- I think we want to talk about NormalizedVersion.from_parts() rather
>than parse_version().

See my previous follow up.  It probably makes sense to be explicit in one
PEP or the other, but...

>So you can't escape needing a function to compare versions.
>(NormalizedVersion does this by letting you compare NormalizedVersions
>together).  Barry if this is correct, maybe __version_info__ is useless and
>I shouldn't have brought it up at pycon?

...yikes!  You might be right about that.  Unless there are any counter
arguments, I think I'll have to remove it from PEP 396.

(Makes me like hexversion even more :).

-Barry
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