How can I know if my script is installed or not?

Asked Jul 02 '19 at 09:52

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I'm developing a python script and the last stable version of this script is installed on my PC (using setuptools).

How can I know (from the python source) that the running script is the installed version or development version. (If I call python -m awesomescript in the repository, the dev version will start otherwise the installed version.)

My only idea is to check if the script file is located under the sitepackages, but that doesn't seem as a "beauty" solution.

UPDATE

The main goal is to get proper version, using pbr. The following method can be used to get the version of the script within the code. (Fethced from this post.)

import pkg_resources  # part of setuptools
version = pkg_resources.require("MyProject")[0].version

However the pkg_resources.require("MyProject")[0].version will return the version of the installed variant, which is irrelevant if I run development variant of the script.

edited Jul 02 '19 at 12:25

asked Jul 02 '19 at 09:52

betontalpfa

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how do you install the "script"? – Ammar Jul 02 '19 at 09:55
Using setuptools, with pbr – betontalpfa Jul 02 '19 at 09:56
maybe you could make the script print his version to be sure of which one you are running or constrain the dev one to run only in a 'dev' folder of the source "/path/src/dev" – Matteo Peluso Jul 02 '19 at 10:04
I have wrote update regarding versions. – betontalpfa Jul 02 '19 at 12:26

How can I know if my script is installed or not?

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