Fix the parsing of git tags as version numbers

    # package from the git tree.

    try:

        import subprocess

        command = ['git', 'describe', '--tags', '--always', '--dirty']

        return str(subprocess.check_output(command))

        command = ['git', 'describe', '--tags', '--always', '--dirty=+dirty']

        return subprocess.check_output(command).strip().decode()

    except:

        pass