Add version info. Use same prerelease convention as Nvim itself.

neovim/__init__.py

@@ -12,14 +12,18 @@
                           stdio_session, tcp_session)
 from .plugin import (Host, autocmd, command, decode, encoding, function,
                      plugin, rpc_export, shutdown_hook)
+from .util import Version
 
 
 __all__ = ('tcp_session', 'socket_session', 'stdio_session', 'child_session',
            'start_host', 'autocmd', 'command', 'encoding', 'decode',
-           'function', 'plugin', 'rpc_export', 'Host', 'Nvim',
+           'function', 'plugin', 'rpc_export', 'Host', 'Nvim', 'VERSION',
            'shutdown_hook', 'attach', 'setup_logging', 'ErrorResponse')
 
 
+VERSION = Version(major=0, minor=1, patch=11, prerelease="dev")
+
+
 def start_host(session=None):
     """Promote the current process into python plugin host for Nvim.
 
@@ -64,7 +68,14 @@ def start_host(session=None):
 
     if not session:
         session = stdio_session()
-    host = Host(Nvim.from_session(session))
+    nvim = Nvim.from_session(session)
+
+    if nvim.version.api_level < 1:
+        sys.stderr.write("This version of the neovim python package "
+                         "requires nvim 0.1.6 or later")
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    host = Host(nvim)
     host.start(plugins)
 
 

neovim/api/nvim.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from .tabpage import Tabpage
 from .window import Window
 from ..compat import IS_PYTHON3
-from ..util import format_exc_skip
+from ..util import Version, format_exc_skip
 
 __all__ = ('Nvim')
 
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ def __init__(self, session, channel_id, metadata, types,
         self._session = session
         self.channel_id = channel_id
         self.metadata = metadata
+        version = metadata.get("version", {"api_level": 0})
+        self.version = Version(**version)
         self.types = types
         self.api = RemoteApi(self, 'nvim_')
         self.vars = RemoteMap(self, 'nvim_get_var', 'nvim_set_var')

neovim/util.py

@@ -10,3 +10,23 @@ def format_exc_skip(skip, limit=None):
     for i in range(skip):
         tb = tb.tb_next
     return ('\n'.join(format_exception(type, val, tb, limit))).rstrip()
+
+
+# Taken from SimpleNamespace in python 3
+class Version:
+
+    """Helper class for version info."""
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        """Create the Version object."""
+        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        """Return str representation of the Version."""
+        keys = sorted(self.__dict__)
+        items = ("{}={!r}".format(k, self.__dict__[k]) for k in keys)
+        return "{}({})".format(type(self).__name__, ", ".join(items))
+
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        """Check if version is same as other."""
+        return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__

setup.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     install_requires.append('greenlet')
 
 setup(name='neovim',
-      version='0.1.10',
+      version='0.1.11dev',
       description='Python client to neovim',
       url='http://github.com/neovim/python-client',
       download_url='https://github.com/neovim/python-client/archive/0.1.10.tar.gz',