PYVERSIONS(1)

📦 version 2.7.18, in ubuntu jammy

💖 PYVERSIONS(1) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this is pyversions from the manual pages and she is exactly what she sounds like: your little python-version gossip girl 🐍✨

✨ NAME ✨

pyversions — print python version information

like. that's the whole job. she prints python version info. iconic behaviour, no notes. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pyversions [-h] [-v] [<options>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: pyversions prints info about the python runtimes you've got installed and which ones are supported, plus which one is the default runtime. and — plot twist — she also parses the info out of the PythonVersion fields in the package control file. multitasking queen 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d, --default — show the default python version. that's the one holding the crown 👑
  • -s, --supported — show the supported python versions. the whole approved squad 💜
  • -r, --requested [<version string>|<control file>] — reads the value of the XS-Python-Version field in the source section of a control file and shows you all the python versions that match. now, the parameter gets interpreted as a version string if it's not the name of a file. and if the XS-Python-Version field is just… missing? she goes and gets the version info from debian/pyversions instead. and if you pass no parameter at all, she falls back to listing the supported Python versions after checking debian/control and debian/pyversions. she really said "I'll figure it out myself" 😭
  • -i, --installed — show the installed supported python versions. the ones actually living on your machine 🏠
  • -v, --version — limit the output to just the version numbers of the python versions. no extra chatter, just numbers, periodt ✨
  • -h, --help — print a help text. the classic. the lifesaver 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Python policy.

(yeah that's it. go read the Python policy if you want the deep lore 📜)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Matthias Klose

and that's the whole page, bestie!! footer vibes are just PYVERSIONS() — no source, no version, no date, she's mysterious like that 🙈💖 go forth and check your python versions, you've got this fr fr 🍓⭐

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