def _is_development_candidate(version):
 candidate_pos = _get_candidate_pos(version)
 candidate = version[candidate_pos]
 candidate_extra = version[(candidate_pos + 1)]
 return ((candidate == 'alpha') and (candidate_extra == 0))

def _is_development_candidate ( version ) : candidate_pos = _get_candidate_pos ( version ) candidate = version [ candidate_pos ] candidate_extra = version [ ( candidate_pos + 1 ) ] return ( ( candidate == 'alpha' ) and ( candidate_extra == 0 ) )
is this a pre-alpha release .