remove unused NumericalVersion

IPython/utils/version.py

@@ -1,69 +1,36 b''
 # encoding: utf-8
 """
 Utilities for version comparison
 
 It is a bit ridiculous that we need these.
 """
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #  Copyright (C) 2013  The IPython Development Team
 #
 #  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
 #  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Code
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-class NumericalVersion(LooseVersion):
-    """A version of LooseVersion that is *always* comparable
-    
-    String elements (of any kind!) are interpreted as infinite.
-    Since these are generally only on development branches,
-    that is fairly safe, even though technically 1.0a1 should be less than 1.0.
-    """
-    def parse (self, vstring):
-        # I've given up on thinking I can reconstruct the version string
-        # from the parsed tuple -- so I just store the string here for
-        # use by __str__
-        self.vstring = vstring
-        components = filter(lambda x: x and x != '.',
-                            self.component_re.split(vstring))
-        for i in range(len(components)):
-            try:
-                components[i] = int(components[i])
-            except ValueError:
-                # this is the only change
-                components[i] = float('inf')
-
-        self.version = components
-
-def version_tuple(vs):
-    """Return a tuple of numbers from a version string.
-    
-    'dev' 'a', 'etc' are transformed to float('inf'),
-    so they will always compare positively to any
-    regular integer element.
-    """
-    return tuple(NumericalVersion(vs).version)
-
-#
 def check_version(v, check):
     """check version string v >= check
 
     If dev/prerelease tags result in TypeError for string-number comparison,
     it is assumed that the dependency is satisfied.
     Users on dev branches are responsible for keeping their own packages up to date.
     """
     try:
         return LooseVersion(v) >= LooseVersion(check)
     except TypeError:
         return True
-    
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