A nice little Python idiom I picked up somewhere along the line. If you have your Python code under RCS/CVS style revision control, and you stick the following line in your module:
__version__ = '$Name: $'[7:-2] or '$Revision: $'[11:-2] then the symbolic name (1st choice) or revision ID gets assigned to the __version__ attribute. The neat part lies in the string slicing; if a non-symbolic branch is checked out, then the '$Name: $' portion isn't set by RCS/CVS, and the [7:-2] portion of the string evaluates to empty causing the right half of the string to be evaluated instead. Well, I thought it was neat. -- Regards, Daryl Tester, IOCANE Pty. Ltd. _______________________________________________ sapug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/sapug
