trivver 0.1.0

A library for comparing version strings

Compare package versions in all their varied glory.

Description

This module provides the compare() function which compares two version strings and returns a negative value, zero, or a positive value depending on whether the first string represents a version number lower than, equal to, or higher than the second one, and the key_compare() function which may be used as a key for e.g. sorted().

This module does not strive for completeness in the formats of version strings that it supports. Some version strings sorted by its rules are:

• 0.1.0
• 0.2.alpha
• 0.2
• 0.2.1
• 0.2a
• 0.2a.1
• 0.2p3
• 1.0.beta
• 1.0.beta.2
• 1.0

Contact

This module is developed in a Gitlab repository. The author is Peter Pentchev.

Version history

0.1.0

• first public release