Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: The fact that 1) StrictVersion and LooseVersion have None as default argument for vstring in __init__ 2) __init__ does not raise an exception if vstring is not given makes me think that the intended behavior is that the vstring argument is optional. Making it required would be a behavior change which would run contrary to the distutils code freeze*. I don’t feel that the workaround (set self.vstring to '') is okay; I’d rather fix the methods that fail when self.vstring is not defined, like __str__, or document the limitations. What is your use case for these classes, and what methods need fixing?
* There is a lot of code out there that will break if we start to add and remove things, so a freeze was decided and we work on distutils2, a new version. distutils only gets fixes for real bugs. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13055> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
