| Utilities |
| ========= |
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| .. currentmodule:: packaging.utils |
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| A set of small, helper utilities for dealing with Python packages. |
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| Reference |
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| .. function:: canonicalize_name(name) |
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| This function takes a valid Python package name, and returns the normalized |
| form of it. |
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| :param str name: The name to normalize. |
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| .. doctest:: |
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| >>> from packaging.utils import canonicalize_name |
| >>> canonicalize_name("Django") |
| 'django' |
| >>> canonicalize_name("oslo.concurrency") |
| 'oslo-concurrency' |
| >>> canonicalize_name("requests") |
| 'requests' |
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| .. function:: canonicalize_version(version) |
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| This function takes a string representing a package version (or a |
| ``Version`` instance), and returns the normalized form of it. |
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| :param str version: The version to normalize. |
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| .. doctest:: |
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| >>> from packaging.utils import canonicalize_version |
| >>> canonicalize_version('1.4.0.0.0') |
| '1.4' |
