When not matching the solc version using ^ in the pragma, the solc_version variable contains a _sre.SRE_Match object, but it is treated as a string. This causes several errors such as comparison to strings in line 78, and undeclared method calls (.split()) after the _sre.SRE_Match object is returned from the function.
To test this, you can actually just try to run the default example using:
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When not matching the
solcversion using^in the pragma, thesolc_versionvariable contains a_sre.SRE_Matchobject, but it is treated as a string. This causes several errors such as comparison to strings in line 78, and undeclared method calls (.split()) after the_sre.SRE_Matchobject is returned from the function.To test this, you can actually just try to run the default example using: