Metadata-Version: 2.1 Name: looseversion Version: 1.0.1 Summary: Version numbering for anarchists and software realists Home-page: https://github.com/effigies/looseversion Author: Chris Markiewicz Author-email: effigies@gmail.com License: PSF-2.0 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 Classifier: Development Status :: 6 - Mature Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License Requires-Python: >=3 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown License-File: LICENSE # looseversion - Version numbering for anarchists and software realists A backwards/forwards-compatible fork of `distutils.version.LooseVersion`, for times when PEP-440 isn't what you need. The goal of this package is to be a drop-in replacement for the original `LooseVersion`. It implements an identical interface and comparison logic to `LooseVersion`. The only major change is that a `looseversion.LooseVersion` is comparable to a `distutils.version.LooseVersion`, which means tools should not need to worry whether all dependencies that use LooseVersion have migrated. If you are simply comparing versions of Python packages, consider moving to [packaging.version.Version](https://packaging.pypa.io/en/latest/version.html#packaging.version.Version), which follows [PEP-440](https://peps.python.org/pep-0440). `LooseVersion` is better suited to interacting with heterogeneous version schemes that do not follow PEP-440. ## Installation ### From PyPI ``` pip install looseversion ``` ### From source ``` git clone https://github.com/effigies/looseversion.git pip install looseversion/ ``` ## Usage ```Python >>> from looseversion import LooseVersion >>> LooseVersion("1.0.0") < LooseVersion("2.0.0") True >>> LooseVersion("1.0.0") < "2" True ```