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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