I'm trying to get it so that 1.7.0 comes after 1.7.0.rc0 but before 1.8.0, as it should if you were sorting versions. I thought the whole point of LooseVersion was that it handled the sorting and comparison of this kind of thing correctly.

>>> from distutils.version import LooseVersion
>>> versions = ["1.7.0", "1.7.0.rc0", "1.8.0"]
>>> lv = [LooseVersion(v) for v in versions]
>>> sorted(lv, reverse=True)
[LooseVersion ('1.8.0'), LooseVersion ('1.7.0.rc0'), LooseVersion ('1.7.0')]
python sorting distutils
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