vice.version
============

**VICE Version Information**

In keeping with convention, VICE's version string can be accessed via
``vice.__version__``. Alternatively, this object can simply be type-casted
to a string via ``str(vice.version)``.

VICE records its version number according to the semantic versioning method
described in PEP 440 [1]_.

Attributes
----------
major : ``int``
	The major version number of this release.
minor : ``int``
	The minor version number of this release.
micro : ``int``
	The micro version number of this release (also known as patch number).
dev : ``int``
	The development version number of this release. ``None`` if this is not
	a development release.
alpha : ``int``
	The alpha version number of this release. ``None`` if this is not an
	alpha release.
beta : ``int``
	The beta version number of this release. ``None`` if this is not a beta
	release.
rc : ``int``
	The release candidate number of this release. ``None`` if this is not a
	release candidate.
post : ``int``
	The post number of this release. ``None`` if this is not a post release.
isreleased : ``bool``
	Whether or not this version has been released. If False, users are
	advised to contact a contributor to VICE if they are not a contributor
	themselves.

.. note:: At most one of the attributes ``dev``, ``alpha``, ``beta``,
	``rc``, and ``post`` will not be ``None``.

Notes
-----
This object can be type-cast to a tuple of the form:

	``(major, minor, micro, dev, alpha, beta, rc, post)``

Alternatively, the information can be obtained in dictionary format via
``vice.version.todict()``.

.. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/