New GitHub issue #100666 from jaraco:<br>

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        FWIW, I noticed that I had two torch directories under `/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages`:

```
torch-1.13.1+cu116.dist-info  (the installed version)
torch-1.12.1+cu116.dist-info  (containing only an empty file REQUESTED)
```
`importlib_metadata.version("torch")`  was retuning `None` in this scenario. I think it was looking at the directory which only had the REQUESTED file.

After I removed that `torch-1.12.1+cu116.dist-info` directory, it fixed the problem, i.e. now: `importlib_metadata.version("torch") == '1.13.1+cu116'`

_Originally posted by @sswam in https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/91216#issuecomment-1355716323_
      
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