Version Comparison

You can use this tool to compare 2 versions in order to know if is greater, lesser or equal to the other.

Installation

pip install version-comparison

Usage

• get_lesser() function return the lesser version of the provided, if none is lesser, the result is a None value.

• get_greater() function return the greater version of the provided, if none is greater, the result is a None value.

• compare() function return which one is greater, lesser or equal to the other.

from versions_comparison import Comparison

versions = Comparison(version_1, version_2)
versions.get_lesser()
versions.get_greater()
versions.compare() 

Valid Formats

• dot numbers: You can use numbers like 1.5, 0.1.9, 8.6.3
• chars: You can validate a version with chars. b > a or d < z

Exceptions

There are a coulpe of exceptions that could be used to catch possible errors throwed by the library.

• FormatVersion: This exception is thrown when the version provided does not have a valid format.
• StringFormat: This exception is thrown when the version provided is not a valid string type.

from versions_comparison.exceptions import FormatVersion, StringFormat