How to automatically generate build numbers for a Python GitHub project?

Question

What's the best way to automatically generate or increment version numbers for a (python) project that's on GitHub?

In the past I've always manually incremented the versions number manually via the argparse or optparse libraries.

MattyD · Answer 1 · 2011-05-10 01:01:59Z

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I have used this article here

I found it quite useful as it describes the steps in which to create auto incrementing build numbers.

answered May 10 '11 at 1:01

MattyD
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	+1, now bookmarked as todo and toread. – l0b0 May 10 '11 at 8:44
	Cheers, I built it yesterday just after I posted it – MattyD May 10 '11 at 22:28

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