Updated how the version number is accessed.

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -13,13 +13,15 @@
 # All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
 # serve to show the default.
 
-import os, re, shlex, sys
+import os, sys
 
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))
 
+import gprMax
+
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
 
 # If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
@@ -70,11 +72,9 @@ author = 'Craig Warren and Antonis Giannopoulos'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-# Read version number from gprMax/gprMax.py
-#version = re.search('^__version__\s*=\s*\'(.*)\'', open('../../gprMax/gprMax.py').read(), re.M).group(1)
-version = '3.0.0b18'
+version = gprMax.__version__
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = version + '(Bowmore)'
+release = version
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.

gprMax/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# This is where the version number is set and read by setup.py and conf.py (for the docs)
+__version__ = '3.0.0b18'

gprMax/gprMax.py

@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@
 
 """gprMax.gprMax: provides entry point main()."""
 
-# Set the version number here
-__version__ = '3.0.0b18'
-versionname = ' (Bowmore)'
-
 import argparse, datetime, importlib, itertools, os, psutil, sys
 from time import perf_counter
 from copy import deepcopy
@@ -30,6 +26,7 @@ from collections import OrderedDict
 
 import numpy as np
 
+import gprMax
 from gprMax.constants import c, e0, m0, z0, floattype
 from gprMax.exceptions import CmdInputError
 from gprMax.fields_update import *
@@ -50,7 +47,7 @@ def main():
     """This is the main function for gprMax."""
     
     # Print gprMax logo, version, and licencing/copyright information
-    logo(__version__ + versionname)
+    logo(gprMax.__version__ + ' (Bowmore)')
 
     # Parse command line arguments
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='gprMax', description='Electromagnetic modelling software based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method')

setup.py

@@ -27,15 +27,15 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     raise ImportError('The NumPy package is required to build gprMax.')
 
-import glob, os, pwd, re, shutil, sys
+import glob, os, pwd, shutil, sys
 
-# Main package name
-packagename = 'gprMax'
+import gprMax
 
-# Read version number from gprMax/gprMax.py
-version = re.search('^__version__\s*=\s*\'(.*)\'',
-                    open(os.path.join(packagename, 'gprMax.py')).read(),
-                    re.M).group(1)
+# Package name
+packagename = gprMax.__name__
+
+# Package version
+version = gprMax.__version__
 
 # Process 'install' command line argument
 if 'install' in sys.argv: