Added version_info

.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml

@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: 3.7
 
+      - name: Add version information
+        run: make version-info
+
       - name: Install dependencies and build the library
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Makefile

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ install:
 	@python -m build
 	@pip install dist/*.whl --force-reinstall
 
+version-info:
+	@bash -c "date -u +'Build date: %B %d, %Y %H:%M UTC ShaID: <id>' | xargs -I date sed -i 's/_VERSION_INFO = .*/_VERSION_INFO = \"date\"/g' src/ansys/fluent/visualization/__init__.py"
+	@bash -c "git --no-pager log -n 1 --format='%h' | xargs -I hash sed -i 's/<id>/hash/g' src/ansys/fluent/visualization/__init__.py"
+
 docker-pull:
 	@pip install docker
 	@bash .ci/pull_fluent_image.sh

src/ansys/fluent/visualization/__init__.py

@@ -10,8 +10,23 @@
 except ModuleNotFoundError:
     import importlib_metadata
 
+_VERSION_INFO = None
 __version__ = importlib_metadata.version(__name__.replace(".", "-"))
 
+
+def version_info() -> str:
+    """Method returning the version of PyFluent being used.
+    Returns
+    -------
+    str
+        The PyFluent version being used.
+    Notes
+    -------
+    Only available in packaged versions. Otherwise it will return __version__.
+    """
+    return _VERSION_INFO if _VERSION_INFO is not None else __version__
+
+
 required_libraries = {
     "vtk": "9.1.0",
     "pyvista": "0.33.2",