Python bindings for libversion

Purpose

Python bindings for libversion, which provides fast, powerful and correct generic version string comparison algorithm.

See libversion repository for more details on the algorithm.

Performance

libversion is 10x to 100x faster than other version comparison facilities widely used in Python world.

Correctness

libversion handles certain complex version cases better than other version comparison facilities. Here are some example cases where others fail:

Note 1: fail means that attempt to compare versions has thrown an exception, usually bacause a library cannot parse specific version string.

Note 2: version module was not able to complete any tests as it's a strict semantic version implementation which require 3 version components. Also, it does not support Python 3 without modification.

Python wrapper features

• Provides API similar to C library, version_compare(a, b) function
• Provides more pythonic (but slower) Version class with overloaded comparison operators

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• pkg-config
• libversion 2.7.0+

Example code

from libversion import Version, version_compare

assert(version_compare("0.9", "1.1") < 0)
assert(version_compare("1.0", "1.0.0") == 0)
assert(version_compare("1.1", "0.9") > 0)

assert(Version("0.9") < Version("1.1"))
assert(Version("1.0") ==  Version("1.0.0"))
assert(Version("1.1") > Version("0.9"))

assert(Version("0.999") < Version("1.0alpha1"))
assert(Version("1.0alpha1") < Version("1.0alpha2"))
assert(Version("1.0alpha2") < Version("1.0beta1"))
assert(Version("1.0beta1") < Version("1.0pre1"))
assert(Version("1.0pre1") < Version("1.0rc1"))
assert(Version("1.0rc1") < Version("1.0"))
assert(Version("1.0") < Version("1.0patch1"))

License

MIT license, copyright (c) 2017-2018 Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3@amdmi3.ru.