add env variable to turn off version checking
from __future__ import absolute_import
+import os
from .libtiledb import (Ctx, Config, Dim, Domain, Attr, KV, ArraySchema, DenseArray, SparseArray,
TileDBError, VFS, array_consolidate, group_create, object_type,
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@ from .libtiledb import (Ctx, Config, Dim, Domain, Attr, KV, ArraySchema, DenseAr
__all__ = [Ctx, Config, Dim, Domain, Attr, KV, ArraySchema, SparseArray, TileDBError, VFS,
array_consolidate, group_create, object_type, ls, walk, remove, move]
+if not os.environ.get("TILEDB_PY_NO_VERSION_CHECK"):
if libtiledb.version() != (1, 2, 0):
raise RuntimeError("The libtiledb library version does not match "
"the latest released version of tiledb v.1.2.0")
