Tested locally:
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================== Running pep8 =====================
Searching for pep8
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pep8/
Reading http://github.com/cburroughs/pep8.py/tree/master
Reading http://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8
Best match: pep8 0.6.1
Processing pep8-0.6.1-py2.7.egg
pep8 0.6.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing pep8 script to
/Users/pnasrat/Development/pip/pip_virtualenv/bin
Using
/Users/pnasrat/Development/pip/pip_virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pep8-0.6.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for pep8
Finished processing dependencies for pep8
==================== Ended pep8 =====================
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In py3k the following fails, handle this and use string comparison in worst
case.
Tested on 2.6 and 3.2
>> from distutils.version import LooseVersion as LV
>>> v1, v2, v3 = (LV('1.1'), LV('1.1.2'), LV('1.1a1'))
>>> v1 > v2
False
>>> v1 > v3
False
>>> v2 > v3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "distutils/version.py", line 70, in __gt__
c = self._cmp(other)
File "distutils/version.py", line 343, in _cmp
if self.version < other.version:
TypeError: unorderable types: int() < str()
