Helper file for version-checking
diff --git a/Mac/_checkversion.py b/Mac/_checkversion.py
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+"""This file (which is sourced, not imported) checks the version of the
+"versioncheck" package. It is also an example of how to format your own
+_checkversion.py file"""
+
+import pyversioncheck
+
+_PACKAGE="MacPython"
+_VERSION="1.5b3"
+_URL="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpythonversion.txt"
+
+try:
+ _myverbose=VERBOSE
+except NameError:
+ _myverbose=1
+
+pyversioncheck.versioncheck(_PACKAGE, _URL, _VERSION, verbose=_myverbose)