New get_python_version()
Change-Id: I8d371a2a804852069f16a5d1019f65fb96199d71
Signed-off-by: Michael Walsh <micwalsh@us.ibm.com>
diff --git a/lib/gen_misc.py b/lib/gen_misc.py
index 19c3d6e..712d672 100755
--- a/lib/gen_misc.py
+++ b/lib/gen_misc.py
@@ -589,7 +589,18 @@
return tuple(map(int, (version.split("."))))
-# Note: Stripping out any revision code data (e.g. "3.6.3rc1" will become "3.6.3").
+def get_python_version():
+ r"""
+ Get and return the python version.
+ """
+
+ sys_version = sys.version
+ # Strip out any revision code data (e.g. "3.6.3rc1" will become "3.6.3").
+ sys_version = re.sub("rc[^ ]+", "", sys_version).split(" ")[0]
+ # Remove any non-numerics, etc. (e.g. "2.7.15+" becomes ""2.7.15").
+ return re.sub("[^0-9\\.]", "", sys_version)
+
+
python_version = \
- version_tuple(re.sub("rc[^ ]+", "", sys.version).split(" ")[0])
+ version_tuple(get_python_version())
ordered_dict_version = version_tuple("3.6")