invalid version number '%s'

Package:

ansible

49704

Exception Class:

ValueError

Raise code

    version_re = re.compile(r'^(\d+) \. (\d+) (\. (\d+))? ([ab](\d+))?$',
                            RE_FLAGS)

    def parse(self, vstring):
        match = self.version_re.match(vstring)
        if not match:
            raise ValueError("invalid version number '%s'" % vstring)

        (major, minor, patch, prerelease, prerelease_num) = \
            match.group(1, 2, 4, 5, 6)

        if patch:
            self.version = tuple(map(int, [major, minor, patch]))
        else:

Links to the raise (1)

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/015331518dff60f31a7d8ce24fc315e3ac9e86f8/lib/ansible/module_utils/compat/version.py#L143

Ways to fix

The exception is thrown when calling StrictVersion.

StrictVersion is version numbering. A version number consists of two or three dot-separated numeric components, with an optional "pre-release" tag on the end. The pre-release tag consists of the letter 'a' or 'b' followed by a number.

When you are using invalid version numbers, you will get an error.

Here is some invalid version numbers example:

To reproduce an error

from distutils.version import StrictVersion

version = StrictVersion('1.3.a4')
print(version)

Fix code:

from distutils.version import StrictVersion

version = StrictVersion('0.9.6')
print(version)

Jul 27, 2021

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