On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
What do people use to avoid repeating the version number both in the
setup.py as well as in application/library code, when the
application/library wants to know its own version number?
...
4) I don't recall actually ever seeing this one, but it should be
possible to use pkg_resources to query the version of yourpackage
Yup. I've recommended this to folks in the past.
(downside: if you're running from a source checkout without
installing, you won't get the right version number)
I think you do as long as you run setup.py develop.
Jim
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