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 freeze
and 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The potential problem with simply checking the version, is that versions get upgraded and so the code can go out of date.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

  1. python -m django --version
  2. django-admin --version or django-admin.py version
  3. ./manage.py --version or python manage.py --version
  4. pip freeze | grep Django
  5. python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"
  6. python manage.py runserver --version

Django Shell Commands

  1. import django django.get_version() OR django.VERSION
  2. from django.utils import version version.get_version() OR version.get_complete_version()
  3. 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

enter image description hereIt'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__.

django-debug-toolbar-versions

Solution 31 - Python

go the setting of the Django Project. there find your Django Version.

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