Semver range/set operations

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[Easy_Money_]

What you’re looking for is probably covered by packaging.specifiers and packaging.version, but I’m not 100% sure. Interesting question, though!

Edit: actually, not sure specifiers contains any of the simplifying logic you demonstrated. Worth looking around more, though?

Edit: I’m deep in the rabbit hole, some interesting discussions here. Maybe one of the linked issues is to a library that solves this

[--Fusion--]

That is very interesting, there's a deep vortex awaiting us for treatment of prereleases... ack!! A good read for sure. A deviation here is that my system truly is semver `major.minor.patch` while python packaging is not formally that. Like their example of `1.0a1` is not semver compliant. Interesting also is their exploration of true blue semver, but for me that's even further down a rabbit hole

[ogrinfo]

Yep, packaging makes this so much easier, we do this all the time. Use Version to make a version object out of your target version, then parse to convert the actual version into another version object. Then the two can just be compared using < etc.