Automatic version number both in setup.py (setuptools) AND source code?

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SITUATION:

I have a python library, which is controlled by git, and bundled with distutils/setuptools. And I want to automatically generate version

Answer 1

If you found versioneer excessively convoluted, you can try bump2version.

Just add a configuration file in the root of your library, that indicates where are the files containing the version number, and then via its CLI, you type:

bumpversion minor

to release a minor version (patch or major otherwise).

There are other flag-options, and config options, such as tagging automatically the repository, for which you can check the official documentation.