Which version of fabric API is installed

Question

How might I discover which version of fabric I have installed - through the API?

I understand that I can just run

$ fab --version

but I'd rather be doing something like

>>> import fabric
>>> fabric.version
'1.4.1'

Answer 1

There's the version submodule in fabric:

>>>import fabric.version
>>>fabric.version.get_version()
'1.2.2'

Answer 2

You don't need to even do that, it's in the docs:

from fabric.api import *
print env.version

Answer 3

Sadly with Fabric 2 you have now to do something like

import fabric
if hasattr(fabric, '__version__'):
    # For fabric2
    print(fabric.__version_info__)
    print(fabric.__version__)   # for a version tuple
else:
    # for fabric1
    from fabric.api import *
    print(env.version)