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Textual has no version dunder

See original GitHub issue

I’m in the habit of looking for a __version__ dunder when trying to figure out what versions of packages I have installed. I noticed today that textual doesn’t have one.

>>> import textual
>>> textual.__version__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'textual' has no attribute '__version__'

It would be nice if textual followed this convention.

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Created 10 months ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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jacobtomlinsoncommented, Nov 29, 2022

Ah interesting. Most projects I maintain use versioneer to set/generate the version from git. I’ve never used it in a poetry-specific project though.

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willmcgugancommented, Nov 29, 2022

The problem was that there was no tool to do this automatically. So pretty much any tool that uses poetry won’t have a __version__.

IIRC I tried importlib.version in __init__.py with Rich, but backed out because it was very slow (it enumerates all the packages)!

I believe Sebastian Ramirez was working on a Poetry plugin to do this automatically…

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