compareversions

compareversions(version1, version2)

Function to compare versions, expecting both arguments to be a string of the format 1.2.3, but numeric works too. Returns 0 for equality, -1 for v1<v2, and 1 for v1>v2.

If version2 starts with >, >=, <, <=, or ==, the function returns True or False depending on the result of the comparison.

Examples:

sc.compareversions('1.2.3', '2.3.4') # returns -1
sc.compareversions(2, '2') # returns 0
sc.compareversions('3.1', '2.99') # returns 1
sc.compareversions('3.1', '>=2.99') # returns True
sc.compareversions(mymodule.__version__, '>=1.0') # common usage pattern
sc.compareversions(mymodule, '>=1.0') # alias to the above

New in version 1.2.1: relational operators