diff --git a/morss/crawler.py b/morss/crawler.py
index 6c84000..0d2b625 100644
--- a/morss/crawler.py
+++ b/morss/crawler.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ class BaseCacheHandler(BaseHandler):
     def _load(self, url):
         out = list(self.load(url))
 
-        if sys.version > '3':
+        if sys.version_info[0] > '3':
             out[2] = email.message_from_string(out[2] or unicode()) # headers
         else:
             out[2] = mimetools.Message(StringIO(out[2] or unicode()))
diff --git a/morss/feeds.py b/morss/feeds.py
index 4ad9fac..7ccb9a9 100644
--- a/morss/feeds.py
+++ b/morss/feeds.py
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ class FeedParser(FeedBase):
         out = StringIO()
         c = csv.writer(out, dialect=csv.excel)
         for item in self.items:
-            if sys.version > '3':
+            if sys.version_info[0] > '3':
                 row = [x[1] for x in item]
             else:
                 row = [x[1].encode('utf-8') if isinstance(x[1], unicode) else x[1] for x in item]