I'm starting a new thread to state cleanly what my current question/concern is...
per PEP440 as I understand it: - for ">1.7", "1.7" means roughly the "1.7 series" or "1.7*" - for ">=1.7", "1.7" means literally "1.7" (with zero-padding as needed) While I understand the motivation for the "series" conception of 1.7 to deal with prereleases, the resulting inconsistency in meaning for "1.7" is what concerns me. It's odd . Can someone make it not seem odd for "1.7 to change meanings just because you switch between >= and >? And for anyone who wants to say that "1.7" also means the "1.7 series" for >=, note that 1.7 prereleases do not satisfy >=1.7 Would a solution be to make >= also use the series concept?, i.e. make pre-releases satisfy >=1.7 Marcus
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