STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> You can then use linux_version().split('.') in code that want
> to do version comparisons.
It doesn't give the expected result:
>>> ('2', '6', '9') < ('2', '6', '20')
False
>>> ('2', '6', '9') > ('2', '6', '20')
True
By the way, if you would like to *display* the Linux version, it's better to
use release() which gives more information:
>>> platform.linux_version()
(2, 6, 38)
>>> platform.release()
'2.6.38-2-amd64'
About the name convention: mac_ver() and win32_ver() do return tuples. If you
prefer linux_version_tuple(), it's as you want. But return a tuple of strings
is useless: if you would like a string, use release() and parse the string
yourself.
Note: "info" suffix is not currently used, whereas there are python_version()
and python_version_tuple().
> Do we really need to expose a such Linux-centric and sparingly
> used function to the platform module?
The platform module has already 2 functions specific to Linux:
linux_distribution() and libc_ver(). But if my proposed API doesn't fit
platform conventions, yeah, we can move the function to test.support.
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