On 2008-09-30 18:17, Christophe wrote: > Hi, > > In a projecet I'm making using pycrypto, I need to find out the > current installed version of pycrypto. After looking around, I found > out that "pkg_resources.requires("pycrypto") will give me a string > containing the version number, but is this the only way to do it or > are there other ways?
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