How can I get the installed GDAL/OGR version from python?
I aware of the gdal-config
program and are currently using the following:
In [3]: import commands
In [4]: commands.getoutput('gdal-config --version')
Out[4]: '1.7.2'
However, I suspect there is a way to do this using the python API itself. Any dice?
gdal.VersionInfo()
does what I want:
>>> osgeo.gdal.VersionInfo()
'1604'
This works on both my Windows box and Ubuntu install. gdal.__version__
gives an error on my Windows installation, although it works on my Ubuntu installation:
>>> import osgeo.gdal
>>> print osgeo.gdal.__version__
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'