def git_get_keywords(versionfile_abs):
    """Extract version information from the given file."""
    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
    # keywords. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import _version.py,
    # so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not used from
    # _version.py.
    keywords = {}
    try:
        with open(versionfile_abs, "r") as fobj:
            for line in fobj:
                if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
                    if mo:
                        keywords["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
                if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
                    if mo:
                        keywords["full"] = mo.group(1)
                if line.strip().startswith("git_date ="):
                    mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
                    if mo:
                        keywords["date"] = mo.group(1)
    except OSError:
        pass
    return keywords
Extract version information from the given file.
cupynumeric/_version.py