How to get the proper version?

[Florian Bruhin]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 09:18:47AM +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 03/03/2021 14:55, ullix wrote:
> > After my trouble installing PyQt5-5.15.3 I decided to log all package
> > version numbers.
> > 
> > Pip tells me I have these:
> > 
> >    PyQt5              5.15.3
> >    PyQt5-Qt         5.15.2
> >    PyQt5-sip        12.8.1
> > 
> > But trying this in Python with the variable names in the middle
> > column, I get:
> > 
> > PyQt:         PYQT_VERSION_STR   -->  5.15.3
> > PyQt-Qt:    QT_VERSION_STR       -->  5.15.2
> > PyQt-sip:    SIP_VERSION_STR      -->  5.4.0
> > 
> > This is obtained following Pythons official guidance:
> > 
> > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt/Getting%20the%20version%20numbers%20of%20Qt%2C%20SIP%20and%20PyQt
> 
> That's not "official", this is...
> 
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/api/sip/sip-module.html#SIP_VERSION
> 
> > But the sip version is obviously wrong. What kind of sip did I
> > actually get, and how do I get the correct one?
> 
> You are confusing the SIP code generator (SIP_VERSION_STR: v5.4.0) and
> PyQt5's sip module (v12.8.1). The module's version number corresponds to the
> ABI that it implements. At the moment this isn't available from Python.
> 
> Phil

Note you can ask importlib_metadata about the package version:

    >>> import importlib_metadata
    >>> importlib_metadata.version('PyQt5-sip')
    '12.8.1'

Florian

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