# How to find out the version of a package from its module

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**Created:** [April 17, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-find-out-the-version-of-a-package-from-its-module/37755 "2020-04-17T11:43:38Z")\
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The only way to get the version of the _currently loaded package_ (as opposed to what’s in the active environment) is something like

```julia
julia> pkgversion(m::Module) = Pkg.TOML.parsefile(joinpath(dirname(string(first(methods(m.eval)).file)), "..", "Project.toml"))["version"]
pkgversion (generic function with 1 method)

julia> pkgversion(Atom)
"0.12.10"

```

Needs some error handling, of course. Also hits the file system, but I don’t think there’s a way around that anyways.

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