- finally figured out how to get setuptools version in, available

as sqlalchemy.__version__ [ticket:428]

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
index 22fb10ffd..e55d0ab57 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
@@ -12,6 +12,22 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import *
 from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine
 from sqlalchemy.schema import default_metadata
 
+def __figure_version():
+    try:
+        from pkg_resources import require
+        import os
+        # NOTE: this only works when the package is either installed,
+        # or has an .egg-info directory present (i.e. wont work with raw SVN checkout)
+        info = require('sqlalchemy')[0]
+        if os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)) == info.location:
+            return info.version
+        else:
+            return '(not installed)'
+    except:
+        return '(not installed)'
+        
+__version__ = __figure_version()
+    
 def global_connect(*args, **kwargs):
     default_metadata.connect(*args, **kwargs)
     
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