Version = '2.4.4'

VersionTuple = (2, 4, 4, 'development', 0)

​

MinCompatibleVersion = '2.0rc6'

MinCompatibleVersionTuple = (2, 0, 0, 'candidate', 6)

​

####

def convertVersionStringToTuple(s):

    versionNum = [0, 0, 0]

    releaseType = 'final'

    releaseTypeSubNum = 0

    if s.find('a')!=-1:

        num, releaseTypeSubNum = s.split('a')

        releaseType = 'alpha'

    elif s.find('b')!=-1:

        num, releaseTypeSubNum = s.split('b')

        releaseType = 'beta'

    elif s.find('rc')!=-1:

        num, releaseTypeSubNum = s.split('rc')

        releaseType = 'candidate'

    else:

        num = s

    num = num.split('.')

    for i in range(len(num)):

        versionNum[i] = int(num[i])

    if len(versionNum)<3:

        versionNum += [0]

    releaseTypeSubNum = int(releaseTypeSubNum)

​

    return tuple(versionNum+[releaseType, releaseTypeSubNum])

​

​

if __name__ == '__main__':

    c = convertVersionStringToTuple

    print(c('2.0a1'))

    print(c('2.0b1'))

    print(c('2.0rc1'))

    print(c('2.0'))

    print(c('2.0.2'))

​

​

    assert c('0.9.19b1') < c('0.9.19')

    assert c('0.9b1') < c('0.9.19')