[Tutor] Finding the version # of a module, and py module problem

[W. eWatson]

On 8/5/2010 6:47 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>
> On Aug 5, 2010, at 8:55 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
>
>> It's been awhile since I've used python, and I recall there is a way
>> to find the version number from the IDLE command line prompt. dir,
>> help, __version.__?
>
> Hi Wayne,
> FYI it's got nothing to do with IDLE, it's just a question of whether or
> not the module in question exposes any kind of a version attribute.
> There's no standard, unfortunately. The most popular convention seems to
> be via an attribute called __version__, but I've also seen __VERSION__,
> VERSION, and version.
>
> Here's some code that I wrote that you might find useful. It's from a
> setup.py and it checks a list of modules on which our project depends to
> see if (a) they're installed and (b) if the version installed is
> adequate. In the snippet below, dependencies is a list of custom classes
> that represent modules we need (e.g. numpy).
>
>
> # Try each module
> for dependency in dependencies:
> try:
> __import__(dependency.name)
> except ImportError:
> # Uh oh!
> dependency.installed = None
> else:
> # The module loaded OK. Get a handle to it and try to extract
> # version info.
> # Many Python modules follow the convention of providing their
> # version as a string in a __version__ attribute.
> module = sys.modules[dependency.name]
>
> # This is what I default to.
> dependency.installed = "[version unknown]"
>
> for attribute_name in ("__version__", "__VERSION__", "VERSION",
> "version"):
> if hasattr(module, attribute_name):
> dependency.installed = getattr(module, attribute_name)
> break
>
> Hope this helps a little,
> Philip
>
Thanks. I'll look into it.