[Grok-dev] Re: Grok 0.13 released!

[Uli Fouquet]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > Uli Fouquet wrote:
> >>
> >>   >>> import grok
> >>   >>> grok.__version__
> >>   '0.13'
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> > 
> > That's one way, but I think setuptools has some API to determine the 
> > installed version of an egg. I think we should try to avoid maintaining 
> > a version number in both setup.py and grok/__init__.py.
> 
> Hm, yeah, that's a good point, we should use that. Maybe something like 
> this:
> 
> import pkg_resources
> 
> distribution = pkg_resources.get_distribution('grok')
> print distribution.version
> 
> or something like that should work at least.

Nice! That's what I was looking for :-)

So what about grok.version() providing this?

  >>> import grok
  >>> grok.version()
  '0.13dev'

Well, I could live without it and it is only a two-liner. But to give
starters with Grok a better access to the version...

> > If you're just looking for a quick way to determine the installed 
> > version yourself (e.g. for a tutorial), I suggest this:
> > 
> >   >>> import grok
> >   >>> grok
> >   <module 'grok' from '.../grok-0.13-py2.4.egg/grok/__init__.pyc'>
> 
> It's a bit dangerous if people start relying on this. They might be 
> tempted to parse it even... :)

Yup. Not too reliable, for instance when you do a subversion checkout,
but it was also the only way I knew about until now.

Kind regards,

-- 
Uli

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