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17th March 2024

TIL Programmatically comparing Python version strings — I found myself wanting to compare the version numbers `0.63.1`, `1.0` and the `1.0a13` in Python code, in order to mark a `pytest` test as skipped if the installed version of Datasette was pre-1.0.

Posted 17th March 2024 at 9:32 pm

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