Possible to extract the git repo revision hash via Python code?

Question

Are there any easy ways to grab the git repository (on GitHub) version hash with Python code? I want to use this to handle versioning of 'dev' releases of my software on github.

Answer 1

def git_version():
    from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
    gitproc = Popen(['git', 'rev-parse','HEAD'], stdout = PIPE)
    (stdout, _) = gitproc.communicate()
    return stdout.strip()