How to check Django version

Question

I have to use Python and Django for our application. So I have two versions of Python, 2.6 and 2.7. Now I have installed Django. I could run the sample application for testi

Answer 1

For Python:

import sys
sys.version

For Django (as mentioned by others here):

import django
django.get_version()

The potential problem with simply checking the version, is that versions get upgraded and so the code can go out of date. You want to make sure that '1.7' < '1.7.1' < '1.7.5' < '1.7.10'. A normal string comparison would fail in the last comparison:

>>> '1.7.5' < '1.7.10'
False

The solution is to use StrictVersion from distutils.

>>> from distutils.version import StrictVersion
>>> StrictVersion('1.7.5') < StrictVersion('1.7.10')
True