PEP 314 - requirements for Python itself

[Serge Orlov]

On 6/23/06, Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net> wrote:
> 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.

I'm sure writing English text like "make sure you have python 2.4
before downloading this package" is not abnormal :) How do you expect
to prevent users from downloading your package if they don't have
python your package needs? It could be useful if there was a tool to
silently download and install python, but I'm sure it is a pain to
code and support such a tool, so nobody was crazy enough to do it.