This variation of get_versions() will be used in versioneer.py .

def get_versions(default=DEFAULT, verbose=False):
    """This variation of get_versions() will be used in versioneer.py ."""


    # returns dict with two keys: 'version' and 'full'
    assert versionfile_source is not None, "please set versioneer.versionfile_source"
    assert tag_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.tag_prefix"
    assert parentdir_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.parentdir_prefix"
    assert VCS is not None, "please set versioneer.VCS"

    # I am in versioneer.py, which must live at the top of the source tree,
    # which we use to compute the root directory. py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython
    # don't have __file__, in which case we fall back to sys.argv[0] (which
    # ought to be the setup.py script). We prefer __file__ since that's more
    # robust in cases where setup.py was invoked in some weird way (e.g. pip)
    root = get_root()
    versionfile_abs = os.path.join(root, versionfile_source)

    # extract version from first of _version.py, VCS command (e.g. 'git
    # describe'), parentdir. This is meant to work for developers using a
    # source checkout, for users of a tarball created by 'setup.py sdist',
    # and for users of a tarball/zipball created by 'git archive' or github's
    # download-from-tag feature or the equivalent in other VCSes.

    # Try to get the version info from the VCS-specific replacement keywords.

    get_keywords_f = vcs_function(VCS, "get_keywords")
    versions_from_keywords_f = vcs_function(VCS, "versions_from_keywords")
    if get_keywords_f and versions_from_keywords_f:
        vcs_keywords = get_keywords_f(versionfile_abs)
        ver = versions_from_keywords_f(vcs_keywords, tag_prefix)
        if ver:
            if verbose: print("got version from expanded keyword %s" % ver)
            return ver

    # Try to get the version info from _version.py .

    ver = versions_from_file(versionfile_abs)
    if ver:
        if verbose: print("got version from file %s %s" % (versionfile_abs,ver))
        return ver

    # Try to get the version info from the VCS, directly.

    versions_from_vcs_f = vcs_function(VCS, "versions_from_vcs")
    if versions_from_vcs_f:
        ver = versions_from_vcs_f(tag_prefix, root, verbose)
        if ver:
            if verbose: print("got version from VCS %s" % ver)
            return ver

    # Try to get the version info from the directory's naming.

    ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, root, verbose)
    if ver:
        if verbose: print("got version from parentdir %s" % ver)
        return ver

    if verbose: print("got version from default %s" % default)
    return default