How to use the versioneer.NotThisMethod function in versioneer

def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
    """Get version information from git keywords."""
    if not keywords:
        raise NotThisMethod("no keywords at all, weird")
    date = keywords.get("date")
    if date is not None:
        # git-2.2.0 added "%cI", which expands to an ISO-8601 -compliant
        # datestamp. However we prefer "%ci" (which expands to an "ISO-8601
        # -like" string, which we must then edit to make compliant), because
        # it's been around since git-1.5.3, and it's too difficult to
        # discover which version we're using, or to work around using an
        # older one.
        date = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
    refnames = keywords["refnames"].strip()
    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
        if verbose:
            print("keywords are unexpanded, not using")
        raise NotThisMethod("unexpanded keywords, not a git-archive tarball")
    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of

def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
    """Get version information from git keywords."""
    if not keywords:
        raise NotThisMethod("no keywords at all, weird")
    refnames = keywords["refnames"].strip()
    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
        if verbose:
            print("keywords are unexpanded, not using")
        raise NotThisMethod("unexpanded keywords, not a git-archive tarball")
    refs = [r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")]
    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
    TAG = "tag: "
    tags = set([r[len(TAG) :] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
    if not tags:
        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we

print("Directory %s not under git control" % root)
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")

    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
    describe_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["describe", "--tags", "--dirty",
                                          "--always", "--long",
                                          "--match", "%s*" % tag_prefix],
                                   cwd=root)
    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
    if describe_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
    full_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
    if full_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
    full_out = full_out.strip()

    pieces = {}
    pieces["long"] = full_out
    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
    pieces["error"] = None

    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
    # TAG might have hyphens.
    git_describe = describe_out

    # look for -dirty suffix
    dirty = git_describe.endswith("-dirty")
    pieces["dirty"] = dirty
    if dirty:
        git_describe = git_describe[:git_describe.rindex("-dirty")]

def versions_from_file(filename):
    """Try to determine the version from _version.py if present."""
    try:
        with open(filename) as f:
            contents = f.read()
    except EnvironmentError:
        raise NotThisMethod("unable to read _version.py")
    mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON",
                   contents, re.M | re.S)
    if not mo:
        mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\r\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON",
                       contents, re.M | re.S)
    if not mo:
        raise NotThisMethod("no version_json in _version.py")
    return json.loads(mo.group(1))

def versions_from_file(filename):
    """Try to determine the version from _version.py if present."""
    try:
        with open(filename) as f:
            contents = f.read()
    except EnvironmentError:
        raise NotThisMethod("unable to read _version.py")
    mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON",
                   contents, re.M | re.S)
    if not mo:
        mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\r\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON",
                       contents, re.M | re.S)
    if not mo:
        raise NotThisMethod("no version_json in _version.py")
    return json.loads(mo.group(1))

ver = versions_from_file(versionfile_abs)
        if verbose:
            print("got version from file %s %s" % (versionfile_abs, ver))
        return ver
    except NotThisMethod:
        pass

    from_vcs_f = handlers.get("pieces_from_vcs")
    if from_vcs_f:
        try:
            pieces = from_vcs_f(cfg.tag_prefix, root, verbose)
            ver = render(pieces, cfg.style)
            if verbose:
                print("got version from VCS %s" % ver)
            return ver
        except NotThisMethod:
            pass

    try:
        if cfg.parentdir_prefix:
            ver = versions_from_parentdir(cfg.parentdir_prefix, root, verbose)
            if verbose:
                print("got version from parentdir %s" % ver)
            return ver
    except NotThisMethod:
        pass

    if verbose:
        print("unable to compute version")

    return {"version": "0+unknown", "full-revisionid": None,
            "dirty": None, "error": "unable to compute version"}

def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, root, verbose):
    """Try to determine the version from the parent directory name.

    Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
    both the project name and a version string.
    """
    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
        if verbose:
            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with "
                  "prefix '%s'" % (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
        raise NotThisMethod("rootdir doesn't start with parentdir_prefix")
    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):],
            "full-revisionid": None,
            "dirty": False, "error": None}

def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, root, verbose):
    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
    # both the project name and a version string.
    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
        if verbose:
            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with "
                  "prefix '%s'" % (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
        raise NotThisMethod("rootdir doesn't start with parentdir_prefix")
    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):],
            "full-revisionid": None,
            "dirty": False, "error": None}

raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")

    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
    describe_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["describe", "--tags",
                                          #"--dirty",
                                          "--always", "--long",
                                          "--match", "%s*" % tag_prefix],
                                   cwd=root)
    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
    if describe_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
    full_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
    if full_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
    full_out = full_out.strip()

    pieces = {}
    pieces["long"] = full_out
    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
    pieces["error"] = None

    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
    # TAG might have hyphens.
    git_describe = describe_out

    # look for -dirty suffix
    dirty = git_describe.endswith("-dirty")
    pieces["dirty"] = dirty
    if dirty:
        git_describe = git_describe[:git_describe.rindex("-dirty")]

def versions_from_file(filename):
    """Try to determine the version from _version.py if present."""
    try:
        with open(filename) as f:
            contents = f.read()
    except EnvironmentError:
        raise NotThisMethod("unable to read _version.py")
    mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON",
                   contents, re.M | re.S)
    if not mo:
        mo = re.search(r"version_json = '''\r\n(.*)'''  # END VERSION_JSON",
                       contents, re.M | re.S)
    if not mo:
        raise NotThisMethod("no version_json in _version.py")
    return json.loads(mo.group(1))