version — Easy Playground

Convention for storing a package or module's version string

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# __version__ holds package version info
import sys
print(sys.version)
print(sys.version_info)

# Many packages define __version__
import json
print(hasattr(json, "__version__"))

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__version__ is a special attribute that convention for storing a package or module's version string.

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