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the first item being the initial digits as an ``int``, and the
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second item being the remainder of the tag as a ``str``.
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+ A common use-case for build numbers is rebuilding a binary
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+ distribution due to a change in the build environment,
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+ like when using the manylinux image to build
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+ distributions using pre-release CPython versions.
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+
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.. warning::
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Build numbers are not a part of the distribution version and thus are difficult
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