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Backend/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip_api/_version.py

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+from pip_api._call import call
+
+
+def version() -> str:
+    result = call("--version")
+
+    # result is of the form:
+    # pip <version> from <directory> (python <python version>)
+
+    return result.split(" ")[1]