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kovidgoyal · 11-13-2019, 08:03 PM

calibre-debug -c "from calibre.constants import __version__; print(__version)"

that's the quickest you are going to get. version information is not stored in JSON, but in compiled bytecode.

11-13-2019, 08:03 PM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,455 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre-debug -c "from calibre.constants import __version__; print(__version)" that's the quickest you are going to get. version information is not stored in JSON, but in compiled bytecode.