17th March 2024
TIL
Programmatically comparing Python version strings
— I found myself wanting to compare the version numbers `0.63.1`, `1.0` and the `1.0a13` in Python code, in order to mark a `pytest` test as skipped if the installed version of Datasette was pre-1.0.
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