Odd version scheme

[Gisle Vanem]

Tim Chase wrote:> So the test should actually be something like

>    if LooseVersion(QtCore.PYQT_VERSION_STR) < LooseVersion("4.10"):
>      balk()

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".

I had an "old" version of IPython v0.13 installed! I've upgraded
to v2.10 and all is good.

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