[pygtk] Checking version of PyGTK from withing Python

[David Ripton]

On 2008.05.19 14:04:25 -0700, Mitko Haralanov wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:20:23 -0700
> David Ripton <dripton at ripton.net> wrote:
> 
> > $ python
> >  [...]  
> > ['check_version', 'gtk_version', 'pygtk_version', 'ver']
> >  [...]  
> > (2, 10, 4)
> >  [...]  
> > (2, 10, 1)
> >  [...]  
> > (2, 12, 1)
> 
> I am sorry but your reply is not very useful. Are those methods of a
> module? Defined constants? I can't find them defined anywhere

Maybe Python's ">>>" interactive prompt looked too much
like an email reply, and confused your mail client?  Sorry.

Anyway, I was trying to demonstrate how to dig around in Python modules
looking for symbols, when you can't find something in the docs.  Once
you know the name of the symbol, then you can more easily find the
details.  (I didn't actually know the answer to your question, but I
found it in a few seconds with the Python interactive prompt, using the
dir() function and a guess that the version information would be found
in something with "version" in its name.)

Anyway, the version constants I found are documented here:

http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/gtk-constants.html#gtk-version-constants

And the function I found is documented here:

http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/gtk-functions.html#function-gtk--check-version

-- 
David Ripton    dripton at ripton.net