On 12/02/2015 19:16, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:58 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
On 2015-02-12 17:35, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote:
I believe this sort of lexicographical comparison wart is one of the
reasons
the Python-dev gang decided that there would be no micro versions > 9.
There
are too many similar assumptions about version numbers out in the real
world.
It still becomes an issue when we get to Python 10.
Just call it Python X! :-)
Things break down again when we get to Python XIX.
'XVIII' < 'XIX'
False
I believe that this could be solved by borrowing from Mark Pilgrim's
excellent "Dive Into Python" which uses (or used?) these hex (?) numbers
as the basis for a look at unit testing.
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