From 112f8f4f81c9453e86a4ea92bfecfd5d89975598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:37:55 +0000
Subject: use tools/getversioninfo to extract the version number from the
 Python sources

---
 Doc/tools/mkpkglist | 15 ++++-----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkpkglist b/Doc/tools/mkpkglist
index 0dd3916..2c51ee7 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkpkglist
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkpkglist
@@ -25,17 +25,10 @@ PKG_TYPES = [
     ("LaTeX", "latex"),
     ]
 
-
-fp = open("Makefile")
-for line in fp:
-    line = line.replace('=', ' ', 1)
-    parts = line.split()
-    if parts[:1] == ["RELEASE"]:
-        release = parts[1]
-        break
-else:
-    print >>sys.stderr, "Could not locate RELEASE in Makefile."
-    sys.exit(1)
+getversioninfo = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "getversioninfo")
+fp = os.popen('"%s" "%s"' % (sys.executable, getversioninfo), "r")
+release = fp.readline().strip()
+fp.close()
 
 print '''\
 <table border="1" cellpadding="3" align="center">
-- 
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