How to use the pomegranate.__version__ function in pomegranate

def test_prerequisite_compatibility(config):
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
    from pomegranate import __version__ as pomegranate_version
    if LooseVersion(pomegranate_version) <= LooseVersion('0.9.0'):
        errprint('''
WARNING: You have pomegranate {} installed, which has a known
problem that the memory consumption indefinitely grow. The processing
may stop after processing few thousands of reads due to the out of memory
(OOM) errors. Use this command to install until the new release comes out
with the fix:

  pip install cython
  pip install git+https://github.com/jmschrei/pomegranate.git\n'''.format(pomegranate_version))

def test_prerequisite_compatibility(config):
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
    from pomegranate import __version__ as pomegranate_version
    if LooseVersion(pomegranate_version) <= LooseVersion('0.9.0'):
        errprint('''
WARNING: You have pomegranate {} installed, which has a known
problem that the memory consumption indefinitely grow. The processing
may stop after processing few thousands of reads due to the out of memory
(OOM) errors. Use this command to install until the new release comes out
with the fix:

  pip install cython
  pip install git+https://github.com/jmschrei/pomegranate.git\n'''.format(pomegranate_version))