pkg_resources.Distribution

[omerta source (master)]$ PEX_INTERPRETER=1 ./pants
Python 2.7.14 (default, Nov 16 2017, 13:57:42) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>> import pkg_resources
>>> pants_dist = pkg_resources.get_distribution('pantsbuild.pants')
>>> pants_dist
pantsbuild.pants 1.8.0rc0+26394df2 (/Users/kwilson/dev/source/.pex/install/pantsbuild.pants-1.8.0rc0+26394df2-cp27-none-macosx_10_11_x86_64.whl.8e3a3639d08ef0818f4f5cb4ae4c20e5709cf325/pantsbuild.pants-1.8.0rc0+26394df2-cp27-none-macosx_10_11_x86_64.whl)
>>> type(pants_dist)
<class 'pkg_resources.DistInfoDistribution'>
>>> pants_dist.version
'1.8.0rc0+26394df2'