Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> Use "%s.%s.%s" % linux_version() if you would like to format the version. The 
> format is well defined. (You should only do that under Linux.)

No, please follow the API conventions in that module and use a string.

You can then use linux_version().split('.') in code that want to
do version comparisons.

Thanks,
-- 
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