Comment 5 for bug 497585

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Gary Poster (gary) wrote : Re: [Bug 497585] Re: Export version number as a tuple

On Apr 23, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:

> Thanks Gary. I knew about the __version__ string, but that's a difficult
> thing to do programmatic comparison on.

Ack.

> I didn't know about pkg_resources though. Maybe it's not the place to
> ask, but, why aren't those zero-prefix numbers represented as actual
> ints?

Ask PJE :-)