Checking Python version in a program

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 02-Mar-00 Fredrik Lundh wrote:
 >  note that [1, 5, 2] < [1, 6].  in other words,
 >  this will do what you want:
 >  
 >  import string, sys
 >  
 >  version = string.split(string.split(sys.version)[0], ".")
 >  
 >  if map(int, version) < [1, 5, 2]:
 >      print "sorry"

Fredrik, 

Has anyone told you that you are a goldmine? 

I've seen this sevaral times. Someone has a problem, in this case 
Preston. He comes up with a solution that almost works and that 
requires several lines of code. Then you jump in and lo, there is 
a beautiful two or three line solution.

what-would-we-do-without-you-ly y'rs

/Mikael

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