Find python lxml version

Question

How can I find the installed python-lxml version in a Linux system?

>>> import lxml
>>> lxml.__version__
Traceback (most recent call last):
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Answer 1

Here are two more ways to do it, with minimal typing. You could do it with pip from the command line:

$ pip freeze | grep lxml
lxml==3.2.5

Since you installed from ubuntu repository with apt-get you can also use dpkg:

$ dpkg -l python-lxml
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
ii  python-lxml              2.2.4-1                  pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries