Fixed #27830 -- Used distutils.version.LooseVersion for version parsing.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/utils/version.py b/django/utils/version.py
index 790a68c19c..4569abb608 100644
--- a/django/utils/version.py
+++ b/django/utils/version.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import datetime
 import functools
 import os
 import subprocess
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 
 def get_version(version=None):
@@ -77,3 +78,17 @@ def get_git_changeset():
     except ValueError:
         return None
     return timestamp.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
+
+
+def get_version_tuple(version):
+    """
+    Return a tuple of version numbers (e.g. (1, 2, 3)) from the version
+    string (e.g. '1.2.3').
+    """
+    loose_version = LooseVersion(version)
+    version_numbers = []
+    for item in loose_version.version:
+        if not isinstance(item, int):
+            break
+        version_numbers.append(item)
+    return tuple(version_numbers)