[Get package version with one line command] Found version of python libraries with one line terminal command #python #library

found-version.sh

python3 -c "import sys;from importlib_metadata import version;print(version(sys.argv[1]))" 'pip'

# or

python3 -c "from sys import argv;from subprocess import run;from re import findall, MULTILINE;version = run(['pip', 'show', argv[1] if argv[1] else 'pip'], check=True, capture_output=True, text=True);print(findall(r'^Version:\s*([\d\.]+)', version.stdout, MULTILINE)[0])" "pip"

# or 

python3 -c "from pkg_resources import get_distribution; print(get_distribution('pip').version)"

# or 

python3 -c "import pip; print(pip.__version__)"