Yep, I'm doing that (thanks!). I was looking for some normal (hopefully, machine-readable) way to indicate it so that people can figure out the version of Python required before they download the package.
On 2006/06/23, at 11:04 AM, Serge Orlov wrote: > On 6/23/06, Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> PEP 314 introduces metadata that explains what packages are required >> by a particular package. Is there any way to express what version of >> Python itself is required? > > No, but you can do it yourself: > > # do not edit this file, edit actualsetup.py instead > import sys > if sys.version_info < (2, 4): > print "Error: Python 2.4 or greater is required to use this > package" > sys.exit(1) > import actualsetup > > Disclaimer: I haven't actually run or tested this code, but the idea > is to write the checking code that is compatible with very old python > versions and do the actual work in actualsetup.py > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
