version#

ensight.version(element: str = '') → Any#

EnSight version information

Return EnSight version information.

Args:
element:

The specific value to return is selected by this argument. If no arguments are passed, the return value will be a list in the form:

[‘2022 R2’, ‘standard’, ‘win64’, ‘C:Program Files (x86)CEI’, ‘2022 R2’, None, {‘customer’: ‘ANSYS’, ‘username’: ‘USER’, ‘hostid’: [‘hostname’], ‘ip’: ‘192.168.1.1’, ‘company’: ‘ANSYS’, ‘expdate’: ‘June 26, 2014’, ‘host’: ‘HOSTNAME’, ‘contact’: ‘SOMEONE’, ‘slimversion’: ‘6.31’, ‘keypath’: ‘C:Program Files (x86)CEIlicense8slim8.key’}, ‘222’, ‘Qt’, ‘222’]

Specific element strings include:

  • ‘ip’ - system ip address

  • ‘version-full’ - EnSight version display string, for example: ‘2022 R1’

  • ‘numeric’ - EnSight version broken down as a list of integers and a single string in the form: [year, release, patch, beta]. For example: [2022, 1, 0, ‘Beta’]

  • ‘year’ - Year portion of the ‘numeric’ list (e.g. 2022)

  • ‘rel’ - Release portion of the ‘numeric’ list (e.g. 1)

  • ‘patch’ - Patch number portion of the ‘numeric’ list (e.g. 0)

  • ‘beta’ - Beta string from the ‘numeric’ list output (e.g. ‘Beta’)

  • ‘suffix’ - Suffix number used internally for naming files/directories/etc (e.g. 221)

  • ‘customer’ - Customer name from the licensing system (both flex and SLiM)

  • ‘company’ - Company name from the licensing system

  • ‘product’ - The current name of the EnSight product: ‘EnSight’, ‘EnVision’, etc

  • ‘mode’ - License type: “batch”, “HPC”, “Standard”, etc

  • ‘license’ - Same as ‘mode’

  • ‘flavor’ - Same as ‘mode’

  • ‘arch’ - System architecture: ‘linux_2.6_64’, ‘win64’, etc

  • ‘CEI_HOME’ - Base installation directory

  • ‘home’ - Same as ‘CEI_HOME’

  • ‘lmtype’ - License manage name: “ANSYS”, “SLiM” or “FSI”

  • ‘haveServer’ - Boolean that will be True if a server or an SOS is connected

  • ‘haveSOS’ - Boolean that will be True if an SOS is connected

  • ‘slimversion’ - Version string for the SLiM license manager (e.g. ‘8.44’) or None if not using SLiM

  • ‘keypath’ - Pathname of the SLiM key from the SLiM license manager or None if not using SLiM

  • ‘username’ - User name the license is checked out to

  • ‘hostname’ - Host name of the system EnSight is running on

Returns:

The queried value