Can anyone Pythonize this lexical algorithm?

I am writing a package manager and stuck unable to write the version sorting function the algorithm is here http://www.linux.gr/cgi-bin/man/man2html?deb-version+5 and all other info is also in it please tell me how to do lexical comparision in python it'll be cool if you just write the code! -- ht

Urllib(1/2) how to open multiple client sockets?

Hey there i made a script to download all images from a web site but it runs damn slow though I have a lot of bandwidth waiting to be used please tell me a way to use urllib to open many connections to the server to download many pics simultaneously Any off question suggestions are also ok... -