Cannot find python xlrd version

Question

I used xlrd inside python. However, xlrd does not seem to provide a standard way to find the version number! I tried:

• xlrd.version()
• xlrd.__version__
• xlrd.version
• xlrd.version
• xlrd.version()

Answer 1

You almost got it: xlrd.__VERSION__ .

It is usually useful to see the available attributes and methods by calling dir : dir(xlrd) .

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You can even iterate over dir() results if inside version :

 >>> import xlrd >>> getattr(xlrd, next(item for item in dir(xlrd) if 'version' in item.lower())) '0.9.3' 

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A more reliable way that will work for any installed package is to use pkg_resources :

 >>> import pkg_resources >>> pkg_resources.get_distribution("xlrd").version '0.9.3'