subversion revision number string within an application packaged with distutils?

[Stefan Behnel]

Jim Tittsler wrote:
> Is there a standard recipe for getting the subversion revision number
> into my Python-based application each time I package it up with
> distutils?  (Not just the package name, but also a string that I will
> display in my app's "About" dialog.)

Here's how we do it in lxml:

https://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/versioninfo.py

Stefan