New PEP: The directive statement

[Darren New]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> It's really a documentation issue; people who release software should
> say "I've tested this with Python 2.0", and people with 1.5.2 or 2.1
> will have to look out, and perhaps provide patches to fix problems.

What is the Python mechanism for ensuring a particular (or minimal) version
of Python is being used? Is there one?  I'm talking about something like
Tcl's [package require Tcl 8.3] or some such.

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