How to check Django version
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I have to use Python and Django for our application. So I have two versions of Python, 2.6 and 2.7. Now I have installed Django. I could run the sample application for testing Django succesfuly. But how do I make sure whether Django uses the 2.6 or 2.7 version and what version of modules Django uses?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
Django 1.5 supports Python 2.6.5 and later.
If you're under Linux and want to check the Python version you're using, run python -V
from the command line.
If you want to check the Django version, open a Python console and type
>>> import django
>>> django.VERSION
(2, 0, 0, 'final', 0)
Solution 2 - Python
Basically the same as bcoughlan's answer, but here it is as an executable command:
$ python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"
2.0
Solution 3 - Python
If you have installed the application:
$ django-admin --version
3.2.6
Solution 4 - Python
Go to your Django project home directory and do:
./manage.py --version
Solution 5 - Python
>>> import django
>>> print(django.get_version())
1.6.1
I am using the IDLE (Python GUI).
Solution 6 - Python
If you have pip, you can also do a
pip freezeand it will show your all component version including Django .
You can pipe it through grep to get just the Django version. That is,
josh@villaroyale:~/code/djangosite$ pip freeze | grep Django
Django==1.4.3
Solution 7 - Python
As you say you have two versions of Python, I assume they are in different virtual environments (e.g. venv) or perhaps Conda environments.
When you installed Django, it was likely in only one environment. It is possible that you have two different versions of Django, one for each version of python.
In from a Unix/Mac terminal, you can check your Python version as follows:
$ python --version
If you want to know the source:
$ which python
And to check the version of Django:
$ python -m django --version
Solution 8 - Python
For Python:
import sys
sys.version
For Django (as mentioned by others here):
import django
django.get_version()
The potential problem with simply checking the version, is that versions get upgraded and so the code can go out of date. You want to make sure that '1.7' < '1.7.1' < '1.7.5' < '1.7.10'. A normal string comparison would fail in the last comparison:
>>> '1.7.5' < '1.7.10'
False
The solution is to use StrictVersion from distutils.
>>> from distutils.version import StrictVersion
>>> StrictVersion('1.7.5') < StrictVersion('1.7.10')
True
Solution 9 - Python
There are various ways to get the Django version. You can use any one of the following given below according to your requirements.
Note: If you are working in a virtual environment then please load your python environment
Terminal Commands
python -m django --version
django-admin --version
ordjango-admin.py version
./manage.py --version
orpython manage.py --version
pip freeze | grep Django
python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"
python manage.py runserver --version
Django Shell Commands
import django django.get_version()
ORdjango.VERSION
from django.utils import version version.get_version()
ORversion.get_complete_version()
import pkg_resources pkg_resources.get_distribution('django').version
(Feel free to modify this answer, if you have some kind of correction or you want to add more related information.)
Solution 10 - Python
django-admin --version
python manage.py --version
pip freeze | grep django
Solution 11 - Python
Simply type python -m django --version
or type pip freeze
to see all the versions of installed modules including Django.
Solution 12 - Python
For checking using a Python shell, do the following.
>>>from django import get_version
>>> get_version()
If you wish to do it in Unix/Linux shell with a single line, then do
python -c 'import django; print(django.get_version())'
Once you have developed an application, then you can check version directly using the following.
python manage.py runserver --version
Solution 13 - Python
Type in your CMD or terminal:
python -m django --version
Solution 14 - Python
Django version or any other package version
Open the terminal or command prompt
Type
pip show django
or
pip3 show django
You can find any package version...
Example:
pip show tensorflow
pip show numpy
etc....
Solution 15 - Python
Django will use the version of Python specified by the PYTHONPATH environment variable. You can use echo $PYTHONPATH
in a shell to determine which version will be used.
The module versions used by Django will be the module versions installed under the version of Python specified by PYTHONPATH.
Solution 16 - Python
Run pip list
in a Linux terminal and find Django and its version in the list:
Run pip freeze
on cmd on Windows.
Solution 17 - Python
There is an undocumented utils
versions module in Django:
https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/version.py
With that, you can get the normal version as a string or a detailed version tuple:
>>> from django.utils import version
>>> version.get_version()
... 1.9
>>> version.get_complete_version()
... (1, 9, 0, 'final', 0)
Solution 18 - Python
You can do it without Python too. Just type this in your Django directory:
cat __init__.py | grep VERSION
And you will get something like:
VERSION = (1, 5, 5, 'final', 0)
Solution 19 - Python
The most pythonic way I've seen to get the version of any package:
>>> import pkg_resources;
>>> pkg_resources.get_distribution('django').version
'1.8.4'
This ties directly into setup.py: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/setup.py#L37
Also there is distutils
to compare the version:
>>> from distutils.version import LooseVersion, StrictVersion
>>> LooseVersion("2.3.1") < LooseVersion("10.1.2")
True
>>> StrictVersion("2.3.1") < StrictVersion("10.1.2")
True
>>> StrictVersion("2.3.1") > StrictVersion("10.1.2")
False
As for getting the python
version, I agree with James Bradbury:
>>> import sys
>>> sys.version
'3.4.3 (default, Jul 13 2015, 12:18:23) \n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53)]'
Tying it all together:
>>> StrictVersion((sys.version.split(' ')[0])) > StrictVersion('2.6')
True
Solution 20 - Python
After django 1.0 you can just do this
$ django-admin --version
1.11.10
Solution 21 - Python
Official Documentation
First:
python -m django --version
Second:
import django
print(django.get_version())
Solution 22 - Python
If you want to make Django version comparison, you could use django-nine
(pip install django-nine). For example, if Django version installed in your environment is 1.7.4, then the following would be true.
from nine import versions
versions.DJANGO_1_7 # True
versions.DJANGO_LTE_1_7 # True
versions.DJANGO_GTE_1_7 # True
versions.DJANGO_GTE_1_8 # False
versions.DJANGO_GTE_1_4 # True
versions.DJANGO_LTE_1_6 # False
Solution 23 - Python
You can get django version by running the following command in a shell prompt
python -m django --version
If Django is installed, you should see the version otherwise you’ll get an error telling “No module named django”.
Solution 24 - Python
Type the following command in Python shell
import django
django.get_version()
Solution 25 - Python
Python version supported by Django version
Django version Python versions
----------------------------------------
1.0 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
1.1 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
1.2 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
1.3 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
1.4 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
1.5 2.6.5, 2.7 and 3.2.3, 3.3 (experimental)
1.6 2.6.5, 2.7 and 3.2.3, 3.3
1.11 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 (added in 1.11.17)
2.0 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
2.1, 2.2 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
To verify that Django can be seen by Python, type python
from your shell. Then at the Python prompt, try to import Django:
>>> import django
>>> print(django.get_version())
2.1
>>> django.VERSION
(2, 1, 4, 'final', 0)
Solution 26 - Python
you can import django and then type print statement as given below to know the version of django i.e. installed on your system:
>>> import django
>>> print(django.get_version())
2.1
Solution 27 - Python
Open your CMD or Terminal and run any of the following commands
django-admin --version
or
python3 -m django --version
or
pip freeze
Solution 28 - Python
From your code, you can get the version of Django by using any of the two below.
import django
print(django.__version__)
# '3.1.5'
print(django.VERSION)
# (3, 1, 5, 'final', 0)
or from your terminal, you can run
django-admin --version
Solution 29 - Python
It's very simple open the CLI(command line or any IDE) wherever you installed python and Django just type,
django-admin --version
see here I have installed the latest Python and Django in my system and the result is shown in fig.
Solution 30 - Python
There are two more methods to get the Version (of Django and other packages). Both of them need a version variable for the package to get the version. According to PEP-396 the __version__variable should be set for every Python module.
Method 1 - Get version from filesystem
With that in mind, you know how to get the version for almost every Django/Python package. Look inside the __init__.py of the package root. So if you are a fast at navigating through the filesystem, this can be a very universal way of getting the Version of any package inside your site-package (virtual environment).
Method 2 - Django Debug Toolbar
There is a very helpful tool that is called django debug toolbar. If you use it (very recommendable for Django development) you can list the versions of all apps that have a package.__version__.
Solution 31 - Python
go the setting of the Django Project. there find your Django Version.