[gdal-dev] Minor addition to Python bindings..

[Christopher Barker]

Hi all,

I had a heck of a time figuring out what version of gdal I was using 
today. I eventually found:

gdal.gdal.VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")


It's a pretty well supported convention now for Python modules to have a 
__version__ attribute that returns something meaningful. It would be 
nice if gdal.py had a line:

__version__ = VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")

or

__version__ = _gdal.VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")


While we're at it, it might be nice for osgeo\__init__.py to have a 
__version__ defined as well.

-Chris



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