[Tutor] Checking for Python version

[Wayne]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Steve Willoughby <steve at alchemy.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:42:04AM -0500, Wayne wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Christian Witts <cwitts at compuscan.co.za
> >wrote:
> > if sys.version < '2.4':
> >    sys.exit("Need at least Python 2.4")
> >
> > AFAIK the string comparison is reliable
>
> Not quite. What happens when you compare '2.4' and '2.10'?
>

>>> '2.4' > '2.10'
True



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