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From: "Joe Pham" <djpham AT netzero DOT com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 01:47:23 GMT
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Subject: Re: binutils 20080523-1: version string breaks python2.5 distutils
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>If the OP verifies that the attached patch fixes his problem, then I 
>will release a Cygwin Python with this patch applied.
>
>+        result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)?)',out_string)

It worked, though not 100%: it failed to pick up the patch release component (i.e. 1.2.3a).  This search regex works for all cases:

'(\d+\.\d+(\.(\d+))?([ab](\d+))?)'

-Joe Pham


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