version info not available at runtime about markupsafe

[hayne]

I hadn't realized that the form submission software was using some sort of markup - it changed the double underscores in my reference to the version attribute to make it bold instead.

[mitsuhiko]

You can get the version from pgk_resources.

[hayne]

Perhaps you could explain more fully how to get the version number using 'pkg_resources'.
As far as I can see, 'pkg_resources' is useful for getting info about a package that is about to be installed.

But what I need is a way to find out the version number of the currently installed 'markupsafe'
so I can indicate to the user if it is necessary to update to a more recent version.

It would be nice if 'markupsafe' would provide a 'version' string attribute - this is done by almost all Python modules. (underscore underscore version underscore underscore)

[kevinchabreck]

It would be nice if 'markupsafe' would provide a 'version' string attribute - this is done by almost all Python modules. (underscore underscore version underscore underscore)

Seconded. A call to markupsafe.__version__ should return the version of markupsafe. This is explicitly mentioned in the version bookkeeping section section of the PEP 8 style guide for Python code:

Version Bookkeeping

If you have to have Subversion, CVS, or RCS crud in your source file, do it as follows.

__version__ = "$Revision: 2132f8d8bcb4 $"
# $Source$

These lines should be included after the module's docstring, before any other code, separated by a blank line above and below.