Andreas Tille writes: > Hi, > > to write a wrapper script I wonder what might be the best possibility > to find out the version numer of the running python interpreter. The > wrapper script is of the type > > /var/lib/python-support/python${PYVER}/${package}/${realscript} > > and I wonder, how I can obtain ${PYVER} according to the version > of the python binary that is installed as /usr/bin/python. > > I tried > > PYVER=`python -V 2>&1 | sed > 's/Python[[:space:]]\+\([0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\).*/\1/'` > > which works in principle but I wonder if there is some other reasonable > way.
confused; why a shell script, when trying to get the version of the *running* interpreter. This should be import sys v = sys.version[:3] It's somewhat communicated that this won't break/change upstream. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]