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Ability to find pythonnet version at runtime / define __version__ #1909
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- I would like to be able to find out which version of pythonnet is installed in a particular runtime environment from the python side. Most packages define a
package.__version__for that purpose. I couldn't find anything like that in pythonnet.
I tried
print(pythonnet.__version__)
print([v for v in dir(pythonnet) if "version" in v])I checked on pythonnet==3.0.0rc4.
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lostmsu commentedon Sep 15, 2022
As a workaround you could do
lostmsu commentedon Sep 15, 2022
Actually, there's already
clr.__version__filmor commentedon Sep 16, 2022
I'd like to adjust the build process to add a version to
pythonnetdirectly, instead. To read theclrversion, you have to have initialised the .NET runtime already.filmor commentedon Sep 17, 2022
@amueller Is this really necessary nowadays? Since Python 3.8, there is
importlib.metadata.versionwhich will work even when you just dopython setup.py buildin the local checkout. In the end, I would just use this one to define__version__as well, just on 3.7 we'd need to fall back topkg_resourceswhich introduces a runtime dependency onsetuptools.amueller commentedon Sep 19, 2022
I was actually unaware of that. Thank you, that indeed makes it unnecessary.