[Distutils] Numeric-16.0 problem

[Paul F. Dubois]

OK, I'll fix it. But first convince me this "<" really works though? 
0.10 vs. 0.9, for example?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: distutils-sig-admin@python.org
> [mailto:distutils-sig-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Rene Liebscher
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:43 AM
> To: Robin Becker
> Cc: distutils-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Numeric-16.0 problem
> 
> 
> Robin Becker wrote:
> > 
> > I guess this error is caused by Numeric-16.0 taking the 
> distutils version string
> > list a bit too seriously. The setup.py script wants to do
> > if vs[0] < 1 and vs[1] < 9:
> >     raise SystemExit, "Please see README: Distutils-0.9 or 
> later required."
> > 
> > is there a correct way to get this kind of version number?
> > 
> Distutils has some special classes for dealing with version
> numbers, see distutils/version.py .
> 
> Your code should then look similar to this:
> 
> 
> from distutils.version import StrictVersion 
> 
> if StrictVersion(v) < "0.9":
>     raise SystemExit, "Please see README: Distutils-0.9 or later
> required."
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Rene Liebscher
> 
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