Python: Print Version String from Script
Print version from the command line:
Print version from within a script:
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*- # python import sys print sys.version # 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) # [GCC 4.6.3]
Printing version from script is a important technique to find out which version your script is running. Because, you might have several version installed, and in terminal, there are aliases, links, path environment variables, various shell init scripts, that effect which Python version will start when you type
python in shell.