It's helpful when checking dependencies programmatically or for a developer to be able to retrieve version information from the modules __version__ attribute (see PEP396).
Our use case is a check_dependencies.py script that the developer can run to verify they have all necessary packages installed and that they're the correct version.
It's helpful when checking dependencies programmatically or for a developer to be able to retrieve version information from the modules
__version__attribute (see PEP396).Our use case is a
check_dependencies.pyscript that the developer can run to verify they have all necessary packages installed and that they're the correct version.