Checking Python version in a program

[Preston Landers]

Sorry to followup to a followup to myself, but I realized that this
isn't a very good solution.  First of all, it won't work on Python 1.4
(sadly, we still use that for some tasks at my job.)

I'm still interested in seeing a portable version checker...

In article <89m7u3$qdh$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Preston Landers <prestonlanders at my-deja.com> wrote:

> import sys, string
>
> def check_python_version(minimum_version):
>
>     """Checks the currently running Python version.
>
>     Parameters:
>      minimum_version: a tuple/list consisting of major, minor,
>      revision integers specifying the minimum required version.
>
>     Returns:
>      None on success (version is okay)
>      otherwise, returns the current version list [major, minor,
> revision]"""
>
>     min_major, min_minor, min_rev = minimum_version
>
>     version_elements = map(int,
> string.split(string.split(sys.version)[0], "."))
>
>     major, minor, rev = version_elements
>
>     if major < min_major:
>         return version_elements
>
>     if minor < min_minor:
>         return version_elements
>
>     if rev < min_rev:
>         return version_elements
>
>     return
>
> minimum_version = [1, 5, 2]
>
> print check_python_version(minimum_version)

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