Ticket #3137 (closed enhancement: fixed)
Add __version__ to python bindings
| Reported by: | ChrisBarker | Owned by: | hobu |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 1.6.3 |
| Component: | PythonBindings | Version: | unspecified |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
It's a pretty well supported convention now for Python modules to have a __version__ attribute that returns something meaningful. It would be nice if gdal.py had a line:
__version__ = VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")
or
__version__ = _gdal.VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")
While we're at it, it might be nice for osgeo\__init__.py to have a __version__ defined as well.
Patch attached -- I don't know if it's right for the osgeo\__init__.py to poke into gdal to get a version number, but I didn't know how else to do it. It also may not be the best idea to to import _gdal there, as someone using just OGR may not want it imported.
It may be best to have the setup.py or Makefile dump a version number into the __init__.py file at build time instead, but I'm not sure where it would come from.
I couldn't find any version info in OGR or OSR, so I haven't added anything for that.
Attachments
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version_diff.patch
(0.8 KB) - added by ChrisBarker
4 years ago.
- patch to add version attribute to gdal.py
