The version checking was historically done to deal with
different versions and importing the low-level Python
module. Then it was used to try and help when using -py3.
A minimum version check implies that the wrappers work
with any version >= 2.7, which is not really correct.
The correct thing to do is to check that the exact
version used matches the one that the C layer was compiled
against, which can only be left for the user to do, perhaps
using %pythonbegin.
Issue #1779
06/25/2002
This directory contains all of the SWIG language modules. Many of these
modules contain code that dates back to SWIG1.0. The module API has changed
a lot in the development releases so this is fairly messy. We're working on
cleaning it up, but you'll have to bear with us until it's done.
-- Dave
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