On Apr 13, 2021, at 22:40, Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Turns out this was suggested in PEP 396 -- and deferred almost 13 years ago! > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0396/
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-versions -Barry
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