How check application verision information in PySide

Question

I created EXE file with Python (PySide) + PyInstaller. Once I try to use

print QtGui.QApplication.applicationVersion()

I don't see valid version in x.x.x.x format of the application.

Are there any built-in functions in PySide instead of this, or maybe should I use other library for it?

PS. I don't believe that Python doesn't have any methods to extract information about EXE :)

Found solution here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/580924/python-windows-file-version-attribute — SpanishBoy, Jul 07 '15 at 21:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '15 at 13:58

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Have a look here.

There's everything you're looking for !

Hope this helps.

answered Jun 29 '15 at 13:58

Maxime B

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Thanks, however this link shows how we can extract version of PySide framework. I am looking for version about compiled aaplication – SpanishBoy Jun 29 '15 at 14:01
Isn't the QtCore version what you're looking for ? – Maxime B Jun 29 '15 at 14:03
No, I am looking for version about compiled application – SpanishBoy Jun 29 '15 at 14:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '15 at 13:22

Found one way to do it:

import win32api    

def get_version_info():
    try:
        filename = APP_FILENAME
        return get_file_properties(filename)['FileVersion']
    except BaseException, err:
        log_error(err.message)
        return '0.0.0.0'

def get_file_properties(filename):
    """
    Read all properties of the given file return them as a dictionary.
    """
    propNames = ('Comments', 'InternalName', 'ProductName',
        'CompanyName', 'LegalCopyright', 'ProductVersion',
        'FileDescription', 'LegalTrademarks', 'PrivateBuild',
        'FileVersion', 'OriginalFilename', 'SpecialBuild')

    props = {'FixedFileInfo': None, 'StringFileInfo': None, 'FileVersion': '0.0.0.0'}

    try:
        # backslash as parm returns dictionary of numeric info corresponding to VS_FIXEDFILEINFO struc
        print filename
        fixedInfo = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(filename, '\\')
        props['FixedFileInfo'] = fixedInfo
        props['FileVersion'] = "%d.%d.%d.%d" % (fixedInfo['FileVersionMS'] / 65536,
                fixedInfo['FileVersionMS'] % 65536, fixedInfo['FileVersionLS'] / 65536,
                fixedInfo['FileVersionLS'] % 65536)

        # \VarFileInfo\Translation returns list of available (language, codepage)
        # pairs that can be used to retreive string info. We are using only the first pair.
        lang, codepage = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(filename, '\\VarFileInfo\\Translation')[0]

        # any other must be of the form \StringfileInfo\%04X%04X\parm_name, middle
        # two are language/codepage pair returned from above

        strInfo = {}
        for propName in propNames:
            strInfoPath = u'\\StringFileInfo\\%04X%04X\\%s' % (lang, codepage, propName)
            ## print str_info
            strInfo[propName] = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(filename, strInfoPath)

        props['StringFileInfo'] = strInfo
    except BaseException, err:
        log_error(err.message)
    return props

How check application verision information in PySide

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