try injecting version

.github/workflows/build_and_release.yml

@@ -20,11 +20,15 @@ jobs:
         virtualenvs-create: true
     - name: Install Dependencies
       run: poetry install
-    - name: build the sucker
-      run: make build
       # https://stackoverflow.com/a/64195658
     - name: Add SHORT_SHA env property with commit short sha
-      run: echo "SHORT_SHA=`echo ${GITHUB_SHA} | cut -c1-8`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      run: echo "SHORT_SHA=`echo ${GITHUB_SHA} | cut -c1-7`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: Inject version
+      run: |
+        touch src/__version__.py
+        echo "__version__ = '${{ env.SHORT_SHA }}'" >> src/__version__.py
+    - name: build the sucker
+      run: make build
     - uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
       with:
         artifacts: "utils"

poetry.lock

@@ -15,6 +15,27 @@ doc = ["packaging", "sphinx-rtd-theme", "sphinx-autodoc-typehints (>=1.2.0)"]
 test = ["coverage[toml] (>=4.5)", "hypothesis (>=4.0)", "pytest (>=7.0)", "pytest-mock (>=3.6.1)", "trustme", "contextlib2", "uvloop (<0.15)", "mock (>=4)", "uvloop (>=0.15)"]
 trio = ["trio (>=0.16)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "black"
+version = "22.6.0"
+description = "The uncompromising code formatter."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6.2"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+click = ">=8.0.0"
+mypy-extensions = ">=0.4.3"
+pathspec = ">=0.9.0"
+platformdirs = ">=2"
+tomli = {version = ">=1.1.0", markers = "python_full_version < \"3.11.0a7\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+colorama = ["colorama (>=0.4.3)"]
+d = ["aiohttp (>=3.7.4)"]
+jupyter = ["ipython (>=7.8.0)", "tokenize-rt (>=3.2.0)"]
+uvloop = ["uvloop (>=0.15.2)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cachecontrol"
 version = "0.12.11"
@@ -186,10 +207,10 @@ six = ">=1.9"
 webencodings = "*"
 
 [package.extras]
-all = ["genshi", "chardet (>=2.2)", "lxml"]
-chardet = ["chardet (>=2.2)"]
-genshi = ["genshi"]
 lxml = ["lxml"]
+genshi = ["genshi"]
+chardet = ["chardet (>=2.2)"]
+all = ["lxml", "chardet (>=2.2)", "genshi"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "httpcore"
@@ -282,6 +303,14 @@ category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mypy-extensions"
+version = "0.4.3"
+description = "Experimental type system extensions for programs checked with the mypy typechecker."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "packaging"
 version = "20.9"
@@ -301,6 +330,14 @@ category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pathspec"
+version = "0.9.0"
+description = "Utility library for gitignore style pattern matching of file paths."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,>=2.7"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pexpect"
 version = "4.8.0"
@@ -502,6 +539,14 @@ category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tomli"
+version = "2.0.1"
+description = "A lil' TOML parser"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tomlkit"
 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -552,13 +597,17 @@ python-versions = "*"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "13926d7e3c4d3b55c28acf89091a2749015b8fad1dcd710543dc3cfbdb1bbaec"
+content-hash = "6f1802f15f85c08e926dc13db45802e5c7bc863ab623d44a1c3b4b2dab1af7b1"
 
 [metadata.files]
 anyio = []
+black = []
 cachecontrol = []
 cachy = []
-certifi = []
+certifi = [
+    {file = "certifi-2022.6.15-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:fe86415d55e84719d75f8b69414f6438ac3547d2078ab91b67e779ef69378412"},
+    {file = "certifi-2022.6.15.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:84c85a9078b11105f04f3036a9482ae10e4621616db313fe045dd24743a0820d"},
+]
 cffi = []
 charset-normalizer = []
 cleo = []
@@ -567,19 +616,16 @@ click = [
     {file = "click-8.1.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7682dc8afb30297001674575ea00d1814d808d6a36af415a82bd481d37ba7b8e"},
 ]
 clikit = []
-colorama = []
+colorama = [
+    {file = "colorama-0.4.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:854bf444933e37f5824ae7bfc1e98d5bce2ebe4160d46b5edf346a89358e99da"},
+    {file = "colorama-0.4.5.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e6c6b4334fc50988a639d9b98aa429a0b57da6e17b9a44f0451f930b6967b7a4"},
+]
 crashtest = []
 cryptography = []
 distlib = []
 filelock = []
-h11 = [
+h11 = []
-    {file = "h11-0.12.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:36a3cb8c0a032f56e2da7084577878a035d3b61d104230d4bd49c0c6b555a9c6"},
+html5lib = []
-    {file = "h11-0.12.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:47222cb6067e4a307d535814917cd98fd0a57b6788ce715755fa2b6c28b56042"},
-]
-html5lib = [
-    {file = "html5lib-1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:0d78f8fde1c230e99fe37986a60526d7049ed4bf8a9fadbad5f00e22e58e041d"},
-    {file = "html5lib-1.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b2e5b40261e20f354d198eae92afc10d750afb487ed5e50f9c4eaf07c184146f"},
-]
 httpcore = []
 httpx = []
 idna = [
@@ -590,8 +636,16 @@ jeepney = []
 keyring = []
 lockfile = []
 msgpack = []
+mypy-extensions = [
+    {file = "mypy_extensions-0.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:090fedd75945a69ae91ce1303b5824f428daf5a028d2f6ab8a299250a846f15d"},
+    {file = "mypy_extensions-0.4.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2d82818f5bb3e369420cb3c4060a7970edba416647068eb4c5343488a6c604a8"},
+]
 packaging = []
 pastel = []
+pathspec = [
+    {file = "pathspec-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:7d15c4ddb0b5c802d161efc417ec1a2558ea2653c2e8ad9c19098201dc1c993a"},
+    {file = "pathspec-0.9.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e564499435a2673d586f6b2130bb5b95f04a3ba06f81b8f895b651a3c76aabb1"},
+]
 pexpect = [
     {file = "pexpect-4.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:0b48a55dcb3c05f3329815901ea4fc1537514d6ba867a152b581d69ae3710937"},
     {file = "pexpect-4.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:fc65a43959d153d0114afe13997d439c22823a27cefceb5ff35c2178c6784c0c"},
@@ -628,10 +682,11 @@ six = [
     {file = "six-1.16.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1e61c37477a1626458e36f7b1d82aa5c9b094fa4802892072e49de9c60c4c926"},
 ]
 sniffio = []
+tomli = [
+    {file = "tomli-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:939de3e7a6161af0c887ef91b7d41a53e7c5a1ca976325f429cb46ea9bc30ecc"},
+    {file = "tomli-2.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:de526c12914f0c550d15924c62d72abc48d6fe7364aa87328337a31007fe8a4f"},
+]
 tomlkit = []
 urllib3 = []
 virtualenv = []
-webencodings = [
+webencodings = []
-    {file = "webencodings-0.5.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a0af1213f3c2226497a97e2b3aa01a7e4bee4f403f95be16fc9acd2947514a78"},
-    {file = "webencodings-0.5.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b36a1c245f2d304965eb4e0a82848379241dc04b865afcc4aab16748587e1923"},
-]

pyproject.toml

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ httpx = "^0.23.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 poetry = "^1.1.14"
+black = "^22.6.0"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]

src/commands/update.py

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import httpx
+import json
+import sys
+import zipfile
+from datetime import datetime
+
+
+def main(args):
+    self_name = sys.argv[0].strip(".").strip("/")  # todo: is this resilient?
+    data = json.loads(zipfile.ZipFile(self_name).read("environment.json"))
+    build_time = datetime.fromisoformat(data['built_at'])
+
+    release_data = httpx.get(
+        'https://api.github.com/repos/itsthejoker/utils/releases/latest'
+    )
+    if release_data.status_code != 200:
+        print(
+            f"Something went wrong when talking to github; got a"
+            f" {release_data.status_code} with the following content:\n"
+            f"{release_data.content}"
+        )
+        sys.exit()