[Biopython-dev] determining the version

[Michiel de Hoon]

> Perhaps we should add a __version__ to Bio/__init__.py for
> future releases, with the release "script" modified to
> ensure this gets incremented to match that used in
> setup.py (and Martel).

Another solution is that setup.py uses (reads or imports) __init__.py to find out what the version is. For example, this is what matplotlib does in its setup.py script.

--Michiel.