unexpected result with range in packaging.version.parse in Python

Question

Checking if a version is in range give me an unexpected result:

>>> packaging.version.parse('1.2.3') == packaging.version.parse('1.2.*')
False

I expected True. While

>>> packaging.version.parse('1.2.3') > packaging.version.parse('1.2.*')
True

This is at least unintuitive, right? Is this a bug or do I miss something?

user_1382814 · Answer

I had to use

packaging.specifiers.SpecifierSet('==1.2.*').contains(packaging.version.Version('1.2.3'))