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+# encoding: utf-8
+"""
+Utilities for version comparison
+
+It is a bit ridiculous that we need these.
+"""
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#  Copyright (C) 2013  The IPython Development Team
+#
+#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
+#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Imports
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Code
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def check_version(v, check):
+    """check version string v >= check
+
+    If dev/prerelease tags result in TypeError for string-number comparison,
+    it is assumed that the dependency is satisfied.
+    Users on dev branches are responsible for keeping their own packages up to date.
+    """
+    try:
+        return LooseVersion(v) >= LooseVersion(check)
+    except TypeError:
+        return True
+