On 12 Jan 2007 10:23:41 -0800, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Mellon wrote: > > > > I'm trying to think of a good reason to extract the version from the > > filename instead of using RPM to get the real version from the > > metadata and I can't come up with one. > > The inquirer doesn't have any RPM handling tools installed/available or > is dealing with a lot of versioned filenames which might be a selection > of different, arbitrary formats. > > Try harder! ;-) > > Paul
Well, the answer to the first is "get some", so that's not a good reason. And the second would mean that they asked a question on c.l.p without giving all the background information on the task they were doing, and we know that never happens. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
