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add check_version utility using LooseVersion and explicitly catching TypeError, rather than the NumericalVersion subclass.

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# 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