I'm checking if a package is out of date using
pkg_resources.get_distribution("mymodule").version
If the version isn't matching the latest, I'm running pip install --upgrade git+.... Doing reload('mymodule') is correctly representing the changes, but the above-mentioned snippet still shows the previous version even though the version was bumped in setup.py
I guess the version is only updated per python session? Any other ways of getting live information? Would it be safe to read the latest dist-info directory?
I would give reload(pkg_resources) a try:
>>> import pkg_resources
>>> pkg_resources.get_distribution('thing').version
'0.0.0.dev1'
>>> # in a different shell session install the new version of thing
...
>>> pkg_resources.get_distribution('thing').version
'0.0.0.dev1'
>>> import importlib
>>> importlib.reload(pkg_resources)
<module 'pkg_resources' from '/tmp/tmp.VEueUV76hD/Thing/.tox/develop/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py'>
>>> pkg_resources.get_distribution('thing').version
'0.0.0.dev2'