From 9fef3859cfcc102b2733d7d0a5d3a8809e93d3ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pedro Algarvio <pedro@algarvio.me>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:26:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Strings and integers are not comparable under Python 3

---
 setup.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4ec76899d12..4a6813e6c88 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ def _check_ver(pyver, op, wanted):
     '''
     pyver = distutils.version.LooseVersion(pyver)
     wanted = distutils.version.LooseVersion(wanted)
+    if IS_PY3:
+        if not isinstance(pyver, str):
+            pyver = str(pyver)
+        if not isinstance(wanted, str):
+            wanted = str(wanted)
     return getattr(operator, '__{}__'.format(op))(pyver, wanted)