STINNER Victor wrote:
> 
> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
>> The returned value should be a version string in a fixed format,
>> not a tuple. I'd suggest to use _norm_version() for this.
> 
> How do you compare version strings? I prefer tuples, as sys.version_info, because the comparaison is more natural:
> 
>>>> '2.6.9' > '2.6.20'
> True
>>>> (2, 6, 9) > (2, 6, 20)
> False

The APIs are mostly used for creating textual representations
of system information, hence the use of strings.

You can add an additional linux_version_info() API if you want to
have tuples.