On 04:02 am, p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
At 08:52 AM 4/10/2011 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
This is an often-overlooked case, I think. The unspoken assumption is
often that ``setup.py`` is a suitable place for the overall version
string, but this is not the case when that string must be read by
non-Python programs.
If you haven't used the distutils a lot, you might not realize that you
can do this:
$ python setup.py --version
0.6c12
(The --name option also works, and they can be used together -- the
answers will be on two separate lines.)
This only works as long as setup.py is around - which it typically no
longer is after installation is complete.
And though it's common and acceptable enough to launch a child process
in a shell script in order to get some piece of information, it isn't as
pleasant in a Python program. Can you get this version information out
of setup.py without running a child process and without monkey-patching
sys.argv and sys.stdout?
Jean-Paul
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