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Distutils.version: Version numbering for anal retentives and software idealists (github.com/pypa)
1 point by szobov on July 4, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hi HN folks, I was debugging legacy Python code using "distutils.StrictVersion", and I went to the definition of this function to understand what it is doing. Reading the documentation made me laugh, so I decided to share with you this easter egg. If you feel like an anarchist and software realist, you can look at the "LooseVersion". Have a nice day.




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