version string. If you have a version string that isn't rational (i.e. NormalizedVersion doesn't like it) then you might be able to get an equivalent (or close) rational version from this function. This does a number of simple normalizations to the given string, based on observation of versions currently in use on PyPI. Given a dump of those version during PyCon 2009, 4287 of them: - 2312 (53.93%) match NormalizedVersion without change with the automatic suggestion - 3474 (81.04%) match when using this suggestion method @param s {str} An irrational version string. @returns A rational version string, or None, if couldn't determine one. ))