Replying to myself to update my own thoughts:
I think __version__ and packaging tools answer separate questions.
__version__ answers the question of "this module I imported, what
version is it".
The packaging tools answer the question "what dependency does this
distribution satisfy".
This mismatch is why importlib.metadata.version("bs4") doesn't return
a useful answer. A single distribution might even install multiple
top-level modules with different versions.
Schiavo,
Simon
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