pandas_schema.__version__ does not return package version

[chfischer]

The package does not return version information.

[smarie]

For what's worth, a good way to do this automatically is by using the great setuptools_scm library, like this: https://smarie.github.io/python-getversion/#package-versioning-best-practices

[multimeric]

Is it not possible to just use setuptools to interrogate the version?

>>> from pkg_resources import get_distribution
>>> dist = get_distribution('pandas_schema')
>>> dist.version
'0.3.1'

This seems easy enough, no?

[smarie]

Two completely independent topics:

• this issue seems to be about how to easily create the __version__ attribute in your project so as to comply with PEP396. To do so in an easy and fully automatic way, I recommend the procedure mentioned above, that relies on setuptools_scm. I personally use it on several packages. This is how I do it : Add __version__ attribute to comply with PEP396 smarie/python-makefun#45 (I realized that it was not done for this project, so I took the opportunity to do it right now :) )

• another issue that you mention in your last comment, (that is off-topic for this project) is how can users reliably get the version of any package. Just for reference, setuptools (that you mention) has many limitations, it can not get the version of all packages. That's why I created getversion, a package that combines setuptools with PEP396 and several other methods, so that you are almost guaranteed to get a version number, whatever twisted package you're asking the version for :)