[Distutils] Single version number

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> What do people use to avoid repeating the version number both in the
> setup.py as well as in application/library code, when the
> application/library wants to know its own version number?

...

>  4) I don't recall actually ever seeing this one, but it should be
>     possible to use pkg_resources to query the version of yourpackage

Yup. I've recommended this to folks in the past.


>     (downside: if you're running from a source checkout without
>     installing, you won't get the right version number)


I think you do as long as you run setup.py develop.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation