How do I retrieve the version of Selenium currently installed, from Python?

Question

How can I programmatically get the version of Selenium I have installed in my Python environment?

Accepted Answer

As simply as

```
>>> import selenium
>>> selenium.__version__
'2.37.2'
```

or for command line:

```
$ python -c "import selenium; print(selenium.__version__)"
2.37.2
```

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