Hello J,
> Does anyone know how to get the version of an application on OS X (i.e.
> the version string that appears in the "Version" field in the "Get Info"
> window for an application)?
>
> I'm running OS 10.4.11, python 2.5.
#!/usr/bin/env python
from xml.etree.cElementTree import iterparse
from os.path import isfile
def get_version(app):
info_file = "/Applications/%s.app/Contents/Info.plist" % app
if not isfile(info_file):
raise KeyError("No version file found")
get = 0
for event, element in iterparse(open(info_file)):
if get:
return element.text
if (element.tag == "key") and (element.text ==
"CFBundleVersion"):
get = 1
raise KeyError("Can't find CFBundleVersion key")
if __name__ == "__main__":
from sys import argv
print get_version(argv[1])
HTH,
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