How to use the pyedflib.__version__ function in pyEDFlib

# The master toctree document.
master_doc = 'index'

# General information about the project.
project = u'pyEDFlib'
copyright = u'2015 - 2019, Holger Nahrstaedt'
author = u'Holger Nahrstaedt'

# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
# built documents.
#
# The short X.Y version.
import pyedflib
version = re.sub(r'\.dev0+.*$', r'.dev', pyedflib.__version__)
release = pyedflib.__version__

print("pyEDFlib (VERSION %s)" % (version,))

# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
# for a list of supported languages.
#
# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
#language = None

# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
# non-false value, then it is used:
#today = ''
# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'

# The master toctree document.
master_doc = 'index'

# General information about the project.
project = u'pyEDFlib'
copyright = u'2015 - 2019, Holger Nahrstaedt'
author = u'Holger Nahrstaedt'

# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
# built documents.
#
# The short X.Y version.
import pyedflib
version = re.sub(r'\.dev0+.*$', r'.dev', pyedflib.__version__)
release = pyedflib.__version__

print("pyEDFlib (VERSION %s)" % (version,))

# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
# for a list of supported languages.
#
# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
#language = None

# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
# non-false value, then it is used:
#today = ''
# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'