last_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git describe --tags --abbrev=0'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].decode('UTF-8')
if this_version == '':
- VERSION = '%sdevel' % last_version[1:].strip().encode('UTF-8')
+ VERSION = '%sdevel' % last_version[1:].strip()
else:
- VERSION = this_version[1:].strip().encode('UTF-8')
+ VERSION = this_version[1:].strip()
+
+if sys.version_info.major == 2:
+ # Handle Python 2 (for Ubuntu 16.04)
+ VERSION = VERSION.encode('UTF-8')
API_VERSION = '-1.0'