#!/usr/bin/python import os version = '' # retrieve the version information from the inkscape.rc file # VALUE "ProductVersion", "0.48+devel" with open('..\..\src\inkscape.rc', 'r') as rc: for line in rc.readlines(): if 'productversion' in line.lower() and 'value' in line.lower(): items = line.split() version = items[2] version = version.replace('"', '') version = version.replace("'", "") # version = version.replace("+", "_") print version with open('version.wxi', 'w') as wxi: wxi.write("\n") wxi.write("\n") wxi.write("\n") wxi.write("\n") wxi.write("\n") wxi.write("\n")