From 043dbf437bd2fdee76719b57aae0e6ad01203b9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BuildTools <unconfigured@null.spigotmc.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:06:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: expose __version__ via importlib.metadata

---
 ollama/__init__.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ollama/__init__.py b/ollama/__init__.py
index 92bba280..c0bb46db 100644
--- a/ollama/__init__.py
+++ b/ollama/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from ollama._client import AsyncClient, Client
+from importlib.metadata import version, PackageNotFoundError
 from ollama._types import (
   ChatResponse,
   EmbeddingsResponse,
@@ -57,3 +58,9 @@
 ps = _client.ps
 web_search = _client.web_search
 web_fetch = _client.web_fetch
+
+
+try:
+    __version__ = version("ollama")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    __version__ = "unknown"
\ No newline at end of file

From 0bc5c0171d1172bc792404390f1a346bb4ced10a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BuildTools <unconfigured@null.spigotmc.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:37:07 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] feat: add exists() method to check if model is available
 locally

---
 ollama/__init__.py | 1 +
 ollama/_client.py  | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ollama/__init__.py b/ollama/__init__.py
index c0bb46db..90b66711 100644
--- a/ollama/__init__.py
+++ b/ollama/__init__.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 ps = _client.ps
 web_search = _client.web_search
 web_fetch = _client.web_fetch
+exists = _client.exists
 
 
 try:
diff --git a/ollama/_client.py b/ollama/_client.py
index 8dfce824..3198c9fe 100644
--- a/ollama/_client.py
+++ b/ollama/_client.py
@@ -670,6 +670,12 @@ def ps(self) -> ProcessResponse:
       'GET',
       '/api/ps',
     )
+  def exists(self, model: str) -> bool:
+    try:
+        self.show(model)
+        return True
+    except Exception:
+        return False
 
   def web_search(self, query: str, max_results: int = 3) -> WebSearchResponse:
     """