Test Fenics version

Question

Hi,
is there a command which allows to "ask" the computer what version of Fenics is installed? in this way I could write a code which could be handled by both Fenics 1.3.0 and 1.4.0.
thanks
Antoine

Answer 1

Hi, in shell you can call

$ dolfin-version 
1.4.0+

Also, there is a a function dolfin_version that returns version string. See here.

Comments

It's also available in Python through

import dolfin
print dolfin.dolfin_version()

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Edit: I see now that I found MixedFunctionSpace in the dolfin/1.6.0 documentation, so now I know I should just need to verify my dolfin version for this problem. I am still generally interested in the answer to the specific title question, about checking the fenics version.

Original comment:

I came to this thread looking specifically for my fenics version. This answers for dolfin, but the same method is not an attribute of fenics. How do I do this for fenics itself?

I'm new to fenics. I ask because I am failing to import something (specifically, MixedFunctionSpace) that should exist in fenics 1.6+. I'm assuming this simply because I found the name in the fenics 1.6.0 documentation.

I'm running the provided docker container, but I'm failing to find where the version is documented.

Thanks,

Alex