On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I *don't* like the idea of (== 1.3) and (== 1.3.0) being equivalent > when (1.3) and (1.3.0) are substantially different, though. Instead, > I'll reinstate a variant of the commentary from PEP 386 that pointed > out the value of always publishing releases with a consistent number > of components by including the trailing ".0".
I think it makes absolute sense. These aren't strings they are version numbers. 1.0 == 1.00 == 1.00 == 1.000, adding more zeros doesn't change the semantics. It also matches the existing practices of setuptools.
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