[Image-SIG] Get PIL version number?

[Christopher Barker]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Christopher Barker wrote:
>> It's too bad it doesn't follow the now-common convention of __version__. 
> 
> PIL is older than most Python conventions, 

yes, it sure is.

> and PIL's programming API  tends to be *extremely* stable (on purpose).

Which is much appreciated.

> (Note that the style guide says that "__version__" should contain the 
> VCS revision number, which isn't that helpful.  It also says that the 
> __name__ form is for magic stuff.  And for completeness, Python's own 
> version number is of course found in "sys.version".  Consistency...)

All quite true, but like it or not, __version__ has become pretty 
common. Would it be so bad to have:

__version__ = VERSION

in there somewhere?

One less question to the mailing list is a good thing....

-Chris



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