I was expecting that there is a method yyyy in module xxxx, which I could just call and get the version number. Like version = yyyy.xxxx() I got qwerty12's trick to work with the following code. To me that still looks like calling a command line command from the python code :-) import os a = os.popen("osso-product-info -q OSSO_PRODUCT_RELEASE_VERSION") version = a.next() a.close() Hartti