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-rwxr-xr-xLib/platform.py31
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index a7785a2..f7e24d7 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -132,6 +132,35 @@ except AttributeError:
# Standard Unix uses /dev/null
DEV_NULL = '/dev/null'
+# Helper for comparing two version number strings.
+# Based on the description of the PHP's version_compare():
+# http://php.net/manual/en/function.version-compare.php
+
+_ver_stages = {
+ # any string not found in this dict, will get 0 assigned
+ 'dev': 10,
+ 'alpha': 20, 'a': 20,
+ 'beta': 30, 'b': 30,
+ 'c': 40,
+ 'RC': 50, 'rc': 50,
+ # number, will get 100 assigned
+ 'pl': 200, 'p': 200,
+}
+
+_component_re = re.compile(r'([0-9]+|[._+-])')
+
+def _comparable_version(version):
+ result = []
+ for v in _component_re.split(version):
+ if v not in '._+-':
+ try:
+ v = int(v, 10)
+ t = 100
+ except ValueError:
+ t = _ver_stages.get(v, 0)
+ result.extend((t, v))
+ return result
+
### Platform specific APIs
_libc_search = re.compile(b'(__libc_init)'
@@ -155,7 +184,7 @@ def libc_ver(executable=sys.executable, lib='', version='', chunksize=16384):
The file is read and scanned in chunks of chunksize bytes.
"""
- from distutils.version import LooseVersion as V
+ V = _comparable_version
if hasattr(os.path, 'realpath'):
# Python 2.2 introduced os.path.realpath(); it is used
# here to work around problems with Cygwin not being