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  • Committer: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
  • Date: 2014-03-30 17:59:29 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 6592.
  • Revision ID: a.starr.b@gmail.com-20140330175929-rd97jstcbau2j1gy
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1030521
Use LooseVersion from distutils to check Cython version in order to handle non-integers in the version string.

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Python versions
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Bazaar supports Python from 2.4 through 2.6, and in the future we want to
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support Python 2.7 and 3.0.  Avoid using language features added in 2.5,
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2.6 or 2.7, or features deprecated in Python 3.0.  (You can check v3
 
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Bazaar supports Python from 2.6 through 2.7, and in the future we want to
 
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support Python 3.  Avoid using language features added in
 
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2.7, or features deprecated in Python 3.0.  (You can check v3
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compatibility using the ``-3`` option of Python2.6.)
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Specifically:
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* Don't use the ``with`` statement.
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* Don't ``from . import``.
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* Don't use ``try/except/finally``, which is not supported in Python2.4,
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  use separate nested ``try/except`` and ``try/finally`` blocks.
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hasattr and getattr
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