1.0 1.0.4a3 1.0.4b1 1.0.4 The following are examples of invalid version numbers: 1 2.7.2.2 1.3.a4 1.3pl1 1.3c4 The rationale for this version numbering system will be explained in the distutils documentation. z)^(\d+) \. (\d+) (\. (\d+))? ([ab](\d+))?$c