How do I use Jenkins to maintain versioning on a Python project?

An independent Jenkins server monitors my develop branch in Team Foundation Server's Git repository and builds a new package when it's updated. The problem I'm having is that it uses the same version, specified in setup.py. I could configure pypi-server to allow overwrites, but prefer to maintain build history.

Theoretically, there could be a build step that checks the version and increments it, but I'm hoping that someone has already done this work and published it somewhere.

Has anyone seen something like this?

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could you please clarify if your code is hosted on gitlab, github, bitbucket or something else? This may help to narrow the relevant answers.