use tools/getversioninfo to extract the version number from the Python
sources
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 @@
("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 '''\
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