Every time my Python application is run, it creates a log. I want to include in that log the revision number of the code that was executed. How can I do that?
I use Python 3.2, Windows TortoiseHg 2.2.2 with Mercurial 2.0.2.
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Every time my Python application is run, it creates a log. I want to include in that log the revision number of the code that was executed. How can I do that?
I use Python 3.2, Windows TortoiseHg 2.2.2 with Mercurial 2.0.2.
If you are using setuptools to distribute your application/package, you can access the installed package version at run time using
pkg_resources.get_distribution("my_package").version. However setuptools does not support automatic version tagging with mercurial revisions, so you will have to build your distributions with commands like:or