Re: [Distutils] Way to ask distutils what version of a package is installed?

Jan. 10, 2009


      On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
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A simpler API that pkg_resources's one, something like:
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from distutils import get_package_version
get_package_version('SomePackage')
A generic API could be ;
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from distutils import get_metadata
get_metadata('SomePackage')
{'Name' : 'SomePackage', 'Version': 'xxx', ...}
Regards
Tarek