[Python-Dev] PEP 396, Module Version Numbers (original) (raw)

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Apr 10 06:02:52 CEST 2011

At 08:52 AM 4/10/2011 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:

This is an often-overlooked case, I think. The unspoken assumption is often that setup.py is a suitable place for the overall version string, but this is not the case when that string must be read by non-Python programs.

If you haven't used the distutils a lot, you might not realize that you can do this:

$ python setup.py --version 0.6c12

(The --name option also works, and they can be used together -- the answers will be on two separate lines.)

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