Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > >> The returned value should be a version string in a fixed format, >> not a tuple. I'd suggest to use _norm_version() for this. > > How do you compare version strings? I prefer tuples, as sys.version_info, > because the comparaison is more natural: > >>>> '2.6.9' > '2.6.20' > True >>>> (2, 6, 9) > (2, 6, 20) > False
The APIs are mostly used for creating textual representations of system information, hence the use of strings. You can add an additional linux_version_info() API if you want to have tuples. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12158> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
