On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:03 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >Yes, that's how Jinja does already for example, using Setuptools's >pkg_resources : > >__version__ = __import__('pkg_resources').get_distribution('Jinja2').version
And that's different yet again from what PJE suggests. This is screaming for a blessed API to be pushed into the stdlib. (BTW, why use __import__() there?) >see http://dev.pocoo.org/projects/jinja/browser/jinja2/__init__.py > >Notice that this pkg_resources browsing feature would be in Distutils >once PEP 376 is accepted, so until then, I could probably backport in >Distribute the setup.cfg feature. That would be cool. -Barry
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