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read in the version of a python package
import re
import ast
import io
_version_re = re.compile(r'__version__\s+=\s+(.*)')
package_name = 'pyalgs'
with open(package_name + '/__init__.py', 'rb') as f:
version = str(ast.literal_eval(_version_re.search(
f.read().decode('utf-8')).group(1)))
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