Obtaining Python version

[Jan Kaliszewski]

04-08-2009 o 00:19:22 John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:

> This works, but it seems too cute:
>
>  >>> pyver = map(int,sys.version.split()[0].split('.'))
>  >>> print(pyver)
> [2, 6, 1]
>
> Is it guaranteed that the Python version string will be in a form
> suitable for that?  In other words, does "sys.version" begin
>
> N.N.N other stuff
>
> in all versions, and will it stay that way?  Are there ever
> non-numeric versions, like "3.2.rc1"?

Why not to use:

sys.version_info

"A tuple containing the five components of the version number:
major, minor, micro, releaselevel, and serial. All values except
releaselevel are integers; the release level is 'alpha', 'beta',
'candidate', or 'final'. The version_info value corresponding to
the Python version 2.0 is (2, 0, 0, 'final', 0)."

http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.version_info

Cheers,
*j
-- 
Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <zuo at chopin.edu.pl>