There are cases when you would want to know the version of Django that is being used in your Python installation. To do that, go to your Python console and execute the following commands:
>>> import django >>> django.VERSION
In my machine, it showed the following:
(1, 2, 1, 'final', 0)
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You could also use the get_version() method to get a formatted string of the VERSION variable.
>>> import django
>>> django.get_version()
’1.2.1′
Cool! Thanks, Arthur!
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