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Proper software version comparisons in Python
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gistfile1.txt
% python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Sep 9 2014, 15:04:36)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> os_vers_1 = "10.9.5"
>>> os_vers_2 = "10.10"
>>> os_vers_2 > os_vers_1
False
>>> from distutils import version
>>> version.LooseVersion(os_vers_2) > version.LooseVersion(os_vers_1)
True
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