Is there a recommended or 'Best Practices' way of checking the version of python before running scripts? I have scripts that use the os.walk() feature (introduced in 2.3) and users running 2.2 who get errors. Instead of telling them, 'Upgrade you Python Install, I'd like to use sys.version or some other way of checking before running.
Whatever I do, I need it to work on Linux, Mac and Windows.
I thought of sys.version... but getting info out of it seems awkward to me. First 5 chars are '2.4.1' in string format have to split it up and convert it to ints to do proper checking, etc. It doesn't seem that sys.version was built with this type of usage in mind. So, what is the *best* most correct way to go about this?
What's about: >>> import sys >>> print sys.version_info (2, 1, 3, 'final', 0)
Regards, Josef
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