[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Dec 29 00:21:54 CET 2009

David Lyon <david.lyon preisshare.net> writes:

Requires a particular python version. > Requires-Python: 2.5:2.7

Why not drop ranges as well as operators and simply use commas? The above would be rewritten as:

Requires-Python: 2.5, 2.6, 2.7

This would prevent the ambiguity on the inclusive or exclusive nature of the upper bound of the range.

You might argue that if you want to include 8 versions of Python this makes the notation slightly longer, but who tests their package with 8 different versions of Python? (and if you don't test exhaustively, just use the "2.5+" notation)

Regards

Antoine.

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