get_egg_info

try:
    #NOTE:
    # This is a terrible hack, but it works ;)
    # The version and description from the setup.py are fetched and parsed
    # here..
    import pkg_resources  # part of setuptools
    ver = pkg_resources.require("YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME")[0]
    thetitle = [line for line in ver.get_metadata('PKG-INFO').split("\n") \
             if line.startswith("Summary")][0].split(":")[1].strip()
    version = ver.version
except:
    ver, thetitle = "UNKNOWN", "UNKNOWN"