AwesomeVersion

One version package to rule them all, One version package to find them, One version package to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Make anything a version object, and compare against a vast section of other version formats.

Installation

python3 -m pip install awesomeversion

AwesomeVersion class

The AwesomeVersion class takes a version as the first argument, you can also pass in additional kwargs to customize the version object.

Argument	Description
version	The version string to parse.
ensure_strategy	Match the AwesomeVersion object against spesific strategies when creating if. If it does not match AwesomeVersionStrategyException will be raised
find_first_match	If True, the version given will be scanned for the first match of the given ensure_strategy. Raises AwesomeVersionStrategyException If it is not found for any of the given strategies.

AwesomeVersion methods

AwesomeVersion.in_range

This is a helper method to check if the version is in a range. This method takes two arguments, lowest and highest, both are required, and returns a boolean.

Note This method is the same as doing lowest <= AwesomeVersion <= highest

Example:

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion
print(AwesomeVersion("1.2.2").in_range("1.2.1", "1.3"))
> True
print(AwesomeVersion("1.2.0").in_range("1.2.1", "1.3"))
> False

AwesomeVersion.diff

This is a helper method to get the difference between two versions. This method takes one argument which is the version to compare against, and returns a AwesomeVersionDiff object.

Note This method is the same as doing AwesomeVersion - version

Example:

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion
> print(AwesomeVersion("1.0").diff("2.1"))
AwesomeVersionDiff(major=True, minor=True, patch=False, modifier=False, strategy=False)

AwesomeVersion.section

This is a helper method to get a section of the version. This method takes one argument which is the section to get, and returns an integer representing it (or 0 if it does not exist).

Example:

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion
> print(AwesomeVersion("1.0").section(0))
1

AwesomeVersion properties

Argument	Description
alpha	This is a boolean representing if the version is an alpha version.
beta	This is a boolean representing if the version is a beta version.
dev	This is a boolean representing if the version is a dev version.
major	This is an AwesomeVersion object representing the major version or None if not present.
micro	This is an AwesomeVersion object representing the micro version or None if not present.
minor	This is an AwesomeVersion object representing the minor version or None if not present.
modifier_type	This is a string representing the modifier type of the version or None if not present.
modifier	This is a string representing the modifier of the version or None if not present.
patch	This is an AwesomeVersion object representing the patch version or None if not present.
prefix	This is the prefix of the version or None if not present.
release_candidate	This is a boolean representing if the version is a release candidate version.
simple	This is a boolean representing if the version is a simple version.
strategy_description	This is a AwesomeVersionStrategyDescription object representing the strategy description of the version.
strategy	This is a AwesomeVersionStrategy object representing the strategy of the version.
string	This is the string representation of the version (without the v prefix if present).
valid	This is a boolean representing if the version is valid (not unknown strategy).
year	This is alias to major, and is an AwesomeVersion object representing the year.

Example usage

Here are some examples of how you can use this package, more examples can be found in the tests directory.

Basic compare

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion

current = AwesomeVersion("1.2.2")
upstream = AwesomeVersion("1.2.3")

print(upstream > current)
> True

Compare beta version

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion

current = AwesomeVersion("2021.1.0")
upstream = AwesomeVersion("2021.1.0b2")

print(current > upstream)
> True

Check if version is a beta version

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion

print(AwesomeVersion("1.2.3b0").beta)
> True

print(AwesomeVersion("1.2.3").beta)
> False

Use AwesomeVersion with with ...

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion

with AwesomeVersion("20.12.0") as current:
    with AwesomeVersion("20.12.1") as upstream:
        print(upstream > current)
> True

Compare AwesomeVersion with other non-AwesomeVersion formats

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion

base = AwesomeVersion("20.12.0")

print(base > "20.12.1")
> False

print(base > "19")
> True

print(base > 5)
> True

General behavior

You can test your versions on the demo page.

Modifiers

When comparing versions with modifiers, if the base version is the same the modifier will be used to determine the order. If one of the versions do not have a modifier, the one without will be considered newer.

The order of the modifiers are:

• No modifier
• RC
• Beta
• Alpha
• Dev

Examples

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion

print(AwesomeVersion("1.0.0") > AwesomeVersion("1.0.0b6"))
> True
print(AwesomeVersion("1.0.0") > AwesomeVersion("1.0.0.dev6"))
> True
print(AwesomeVersion("1.0.0.dev19") > AwesomeVersion("1.0.0b4"))
> False

Special versions (container)

There are some special versions for container that are handled differently than typical version formats. The special versions are in the following order:

• dev (newest)
• latest
• beta
• stable (oldest)

If only the first version is this special version, it will be considered newer. If only the second version is this special version, it will be considered older.

Examples

from awesomeversion import AwesomeVersion

print(AwesomeVersion("latest") > AwesomeVersion("1.0.0b6"))
> True
print(AwesomeVersion("1.0.0") > AwesomeVersion("latest"))
> False
print(AwesomeVersion("stable") > AwesomeVersion("latest"))
> False
print(AwesomeVersion("beta") > AwesomeVersion("dev"))
> False

Contribute

All contributions are welcome!

1. Fork the repository
2. Clone the repository locally and open the devcontainer or use GitHub codespaces
3. Do your changes
4. Lint the files with make lint
5. Ensure all tests passes with make test
6. Ensure 100% coverage with make coverage
7. Commit your work, and push it to GitHub
8. Create a PR against the main branch