[Tutor] Checking for Python version

Steve Willoughby steve at alchemy.com
Tue Oct 6 16:46:33 CEST 2009


On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:42:04AM -0500, Wayne wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Christian Witts <cwitts at compuscan.co.za>wrote:
> if sys.version < '2.4':
>    sys.exit("Need at least Python 2.4")
> 
> AFAIK the string comparison is reliable

Not quite. What happens when you compare '2.4' and '2.10'?


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