[Python-Dev] 3.2.0

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>> And the number 1 reason I consider messing with the numbering to be a bad
>> idea:
>>
>>>>> "3.2">= "3.2.0"
>>
>> False
>>>>>
>>>>> (3, 2)>= (3, 2, 0)
>>
>> False
>>
>> If we miss anything, it could easily lead to errors like the two
>> above.
>
> How are those errors?  Surely what matters is that the following *is* True:
>
>>>> (3, 2, 0) >= (3, 2)
> True
>>>> "3.2.0" >= "3.2"
> True

They aren't errors per se, but they're different from the answer you
get with a "3.2" or "(3, 2)" on both sides of the equation (as
behavioural changes go, such a change is probably a good thing, since
it makes naive version checks less likely to break when 3.2.1 hits,
but it's a concrete behavioural change in the release that isn't
really an option until we start working on 3.3).

Cheers,
Nick.

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