[Zope-Coders] Zope 2.7 configure finds wrong Python version

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Hm.  There's also a list of "ACCEPTABLE" versions.  Unfortunately it
> > appears out of date (2.3b1 is not on it).  Plus, I don't know if a
> > trailing sub-version or "+" is accepted or not.  Etc.
> 
> It's a direct compare between whatever string.split(sys.version)[0]
> returns and the item in the shell vars you're looking at.  So, no.
> 
> This is chrism's code -- my aborted attempt last year delegated to
> a short python script to test the version:

Oh well.  I checked in an update to Chris's code.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)