On 2015-02-13 12:20, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Not sure why this is "ridiculous".
>
> Right, versions are effectively a special type [0], specifically
> *because* they intentionally don't compare as scalar numbers or
> strings. It's not “ridiculous” to need custom comparisons when
> that's the case.
>
Gisle Vanem writes:
> That's exactly what they do now in IPython/utils/version.py with
> the comment:
> Utilities for version comparison
> It is a bit ridiculous that we need these.
>
> Not sure why this is "ridiculous".
Right, versions are effectively a special type [0], specifically
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