Is there a "version attribute" in statsmodels?

[odell_wi]

In matplotlib, numpy and pandas, there is an attribute called version that can be accessed (for example):

print  'Your matplotlib version is: %s' % mpl.__version__ 

Which would then print

Your matplotlib version is: 1.5.0

I use this in python notebooks I share with others, also in my in progress analyses along with a date string so I know when I updated the analysis and with what version of the packages.

Is there something like this in statsmodels?  Since I work at a lab that was founded in 1910, and still retains data from some of those early studies, the ability to document the provenance of the analytical tools is encouraged.  I have found statsmodels very useful for ANOVA of my experimental data.  I would like to encourage the scientists I work with to use it more-having this self-documenting capacity in the code would be a powerful feature to "market" to them. 

[josef...@gmail.com]

>>> import statsmodels.api as sm
>>> sm.version.version
'0.8.0.dev0+60bf8a1'


>>> import statsmodels
>>> statsmodels.__version__
'0.8.0.dev0+60bf8a1'

`statsmodels.api` doesn't have `__version__`. I don't know why not.


Aside: my git version number is incorrect because I didn't rebuild for
python only changes and the commit hash hasn't been updated to the
checkout that I'm currently using.


Thanks for the encouraging feedback.

Josef