[issue14894] distutils.LooseVersion fails to compare number and a word

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org> added the comment:

On May 23, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:

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>Thanks for the report.  How did you find this?  According to the doc of
>LooseVersion, 'a' is not valid, so I would like a real example to accept this
>as a bug.

It works in Python 2.7 so I think it was viewed as a regression.

Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:39:59) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
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>>> from distutils.version import LooseVersion as v
>>> v('a') < v('0')
False

But if 'a' is invalid, then LooseVersion should refuse to accept it in its
constructor, right?

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