Question

Are there any easy ways to grab the git repository (on GitHub) version hash with Python code? I want to use this to handle versioning of ‘dev’ releases of my software on github.

Answer 1

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

gitproc = Popen(['git', 'show-ref'], stdout = PIPE)
(stdout, stderr) = gitproc.communicate()

for row in stdout.split('\n'):
    if row.find('HEAD') != -1:
        hash = row.split()[0]
        break

print hash