From a1a0a93930c752c676a6029a9a0b2c71dcc0b86e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: y-p <yoval@gmx.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:30:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: make show_versions available in the top_level api

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md        | 5 +++++
 doc/source/release.rst | 1 +
 pandas/__init__.py     | 1 +
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 775850cb6c892..a764f9c1a5439 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ looking for a quick way to help out.
     >>> show_versions()
     ```
 
+    and in 0.13.1 onwards:
+    ```python
+    >>> pd.show_versions()
+    ```
+
   - Explain what the expected behavior was, and what you saw instead.
 
 #### Pull Requests
diff --git a/doc/source/release.rst b/doc/source/release.rst
index a5555744b99b1..ad904980dd749 100644
--- a/doc/source/release.rst
+++ b/doc/source/release.rst
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ Improvements to existing features
     allow multiple axes to be used to operate on slabs of a ``Panel``
   - The ``ArrayFormatter``s for ``datetime`` and ``timedelta64`` now intelligently
     limit precision based on the values in the array (:issue:`3401`)
+  - pd.show_versions() is now available for convenience when reporting issues.
   - perf improvements to Series.str.extract (:issue:`5944`)
   - perf improvments in ``dtypes/ftypes`` methods (:issue:`5968`)
 
diff --git a/pandas/__init__.py b/pandas/__init__.py
index b33150cc64079..0fdcf655ca47a 100644
--- a/pandas/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/__init__.py
@@ -49,3 +49,4 @@
 from pandas.tools.plotting import scatter_matrix, plot_params
 from pandas.tools.tile import cut, qcut
 from pandas.core.reshape import melt
+from pandas.util.print_versions import show_versions