how to find out the version of a certain installed package

[Christophe]

great! thanks for you fast response.

Christophe

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:30 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 2008-09-30 18:17, Christophe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In a projecet I'm making using pycrypto, I need to find out the
> > current installed version of pycrypto. After looking around, I found
> > out that "pkg_resources.requires("pycrypto") will give me a string
> > containing the version number, but is this the only way to do it or
> > are there other ways?
>
> Most packages have a .__version__ attribute in their top-level
> package dir which you can query.
>
> You do have to import the base package, though, in order to find
> out.
>
> Thanks,
> --
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