Obtaining Python version

[John Nagle]

This works, but it seems too cute:

>>> pyver = map(int,sys.version.split()[0].split('.'))
>>> print(pyver)

[2, 6, 1]

Is it guaranteed that the Python version string will be in a form
suitable for that? In other words, does "sys.version" begin

N.N.N other stuff

in all versions, and will it stay that way? Are there ever
non-numeric versions, like "3.2.rc1"?

John Nagle

 

[André]

This works, but it seems too cute:

 >>> pyver = map(int,sys.version.split()[0].split('.'))
 >>> print(pyver)
[2, 6, 1]

You can also do:
(2, 5, 2, 'final', 0)

or

sys.version_info[:3]

(2, 5, 2)

Is it guaranteed that the Python version string will be in a form
suitable for that?  In other words, does "sys.version" begin

N.N.N other stuff

in all versions, and will it stay that way?  Are there ever
non-numeric versions, like "3.2.rc1"?

                                John Nagle

I strongly suspect that sys.version_info would never change...

André

 

[Jan Kaliszewski]

This works, but it seems too cute:

pyver = map(int,sys.version.split()[0].split('.'))
print(pyver)

[2, 6, 1]

Is it guaranteed that the Python version string will be in a form
suitable for that? In other words, does "sys.version" begin

N.N.N other stuff

in all versions, and will it stay that way? Are there ever
non-numeric versions, like "3.2.rc1"?

Why not to use:

sys.version_info

"A tuple containing the five components of the version number:
major, minor, micro, releaselevel, and serial. All values except
releaselevel are integers; the release level is 'alpha', 'beta',
'candidate', or 'final'. The version_info value corresponding to
the Python version 2.0 is (2, 0, 0, 'final', 0)."

http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.version_info

Cheers,
*j

 

[Yinon Ehrlich]

This works, but it seems too cute:

 >>> pyver = map(int,sys.version.split()[0].split('.'))
 >>> print(pyver)
[2, 6, 1]

Is it guaranteed that the Python version string will be in a form
suitable for that?  In other words, does "sys.version" begin

N.N.N other stuff

in all versions, and will it stay that way?  Are there ever
non-numeric versions, like "3.2.rc1"?

                                John Nagle

Hi,
Easy way to test for Python version:
if sys.hexversion >= 0x2060100:
pass

-- Yinon

 

[MRAB]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Xavier Ho <[email protected]

...
and '00F0' is r31!


Actually, 00F0 is 576 in decimal. Maybe it's the subversion?

0x00F0 is 240.

 

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

So, what am I doing wrong here?

Look at the output of str(0x00F0) for a clue.