Standard way to embed version into Python package?

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Not directly an answer to your question, but you should consider naming it __version__, not version.

This is almost a quasi-standard. Many modules in the standard library use __version__, and this is also used in lots of 3rd-party modules, so it’s the quasi-standard.

Usually, __version__ is a string, but sometimes it’s also a float or tuple.

Edit: as mentioned by S.Lott (Thank you!), PEP 8 says it explicitly:

Module Level Dunder Names

Module level “dunders” (i.e. names with two leading and two trailing
underscores) such as __all__, __author__, __version__, etc.
should be placed after the module docstring but before any import
statements except from __future__ imports.

You should also make sure that the version number conforms to the format described in PEP 440 (PEP 386 a previous version of this standard).

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