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mvpa2.base.externals.SmartVersion

class mvpa2.base.externals.SmartVersion(vstring=None)

A bit evolved comparison of versions

The reason for not using python’s distutil.version is that it seems to have no clue about somewhat common conventions of using ‘-dev’ or ‘dev’ or ‘rc’ suffixes for upcoming releases (so major version does contain upcoming release already).

So here is an ad-hoc and not as nice implementation

parse(vstring)