14 Apr
2021
14 Apr
'21
11:56 a.m.
On Apr 13, 2021, at 22:40, Christopher Barker
Turns out this was suggested in PEP 396 -- and deferred almost 13 years ago!
I’d forgotten that this PEP was in Deferred state. I think it should be rejected and I plan on making that change. importlib.metadata is a much better approach to programmatically determining package versions. https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#distribution-versi... -Barry