local gensim source code returns the version of global installation

[ymnliu]

While using gensim.__version__ to check on the version, the current code returns the global version number. This is caused by Line 10 in gensim.__init__.py:
__version__ = __import__('pkg_resources').get_distribution('gensim').version .

In my situation, I have a newer version (0.13.0) installed in my system paths and I try to use an older version (0.10.3) of gensim in a project. I put the source code of the older version in the working directory of the project, so when I do import gensim, only the older version of gensim is imported.

However, though the local (older) gensim is imported, gensim.__version__ will still return the global version number, which is not correct in local configurations. Can the version number be hard-coded like what scikit-learn does here?

[tmylk]

Thanks for reporting this.