[Biopython-dev] determining the version

[Peter]

Peter wrote:
> From a quick look at approach taken in the matplotlib
> code, we could add something like this to setup.py
>
> __version__ = "Undefined"
> for line in open('Bio/__init__.py'):
>     if (line.startswith('__version__')):
>         exec(line.strip())
>
> setup(
>    name='biopython',
>    version=__version__,
>    author='The Biopython Consortium',
>    ...
>
> I'm happy to deal with this if we are agreed that we
> should add a __version__ to Bio/__init__.py
> (variations on the naming are possible, but this seems
> to be a de-facto standard in python libraries).

Any objections to making this change now?

Peter