Get the Python Tornado version

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How do I get the current version of my Python Tornado module version?

With other packages I can do the following:

print <modulename>.__version__

Source: How to check version of Python modules

Have you tried using `dir` to see if there are any attributes that might be it? — jonrsharpe, Jun 30 '15 at 18:53

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '15 at 19:55

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Tornado has both tornado.version, which is a string for human consumption (currently "4.2"), and tornado.version_info, which is a numeric tuple that is better for programmatic comparisons (currently (4, 2, 0, 0)). The fourth value of version_info will be negative for betas and other pre-releases.

answered Jun 30 '15 at 19:55

Ben Darnell

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Is this specific to python tornado -> or should we be trying these properties on other packages which don't have .__version__ ?? – D A Jul 01 '15 at 05:26
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There's no standard about this, so it's worth a try on other packages. `version` and `version_info` are the names used in the `sys` module, and I know that `pycurl` uses the same names (although in pycurl `version_info` is a function instead of an attribute) – Ben Darnell Jul 01 '15 at 14:06

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 01 '22 at 22:56

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If using Ubuntu, open a terminal and type python. Then import tornado and the write command tornado.version.

You will get output like '4.2.1'.

edited Mar 01 '22 at 22:56

Peter Mortensen

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answered Jun 19 '18 at 05:18

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 30 '15 at 18:53

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With no reference, or reason I tried the following:

print tornado.version

which seems to do the trick.

answered Jun 30 '15 at 18:53

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