pep440deb – Map PEP440 version to Debian policy

Debian and Python has two distincts conventions for version scheme. Each have a different way to tell a pre-release tag, etc. pep440deb is a little helper for managing translation of Python package version to Debian version policy.

$ pep440deb 1.0a1
1.0~a1
$ pep440deb --echo --pypi pip
9.0.1 9.0.1
$ echo 1.0.dev0 | pep440deb --file -
1.0~dev0

You can use it from Python:

>>> from pep440deb import debianize
>>> debianize('1.0a1')
'1.0~a1'

pip install pep440deb