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What is the recommended way getting hold of the package version of a package in the $PYTHONPATH or sys.path?
I remember that the pkg_resource module has some functionality for this but I can not find any related information. Please don't point me to solution using a version.py file and reading it somehow. Using pkg_resources is the way to go but how exactly?
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pkg_resources is a module used to find and manage Python package/version dependencies and access bundled files and resources, including those inside of zipped . egg files.
The pkg_resources module distributed with setuptools provides an API for Python libraries to access their resource files, and for extensible applications and frameworks to automatically discover plugins.
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