deprecate __version__

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "Flask-DebugToolbar"
-version = "0.15.1"
+version = "0.16.0.dev"
 description = "A toolbar overlay for debugging Flask applications."
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE.txt" }

src/flask_debugtoolbar/__init__.py

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 from .utils import gzip_compress
 from .utils import gzip_decompress
 
-__version__ = importlib.metadata.version("flask-debugtoolbar")
 _jinja_version = importlib.metadata.version("jinja2")
 
 module: Blueprint = Blueprint("debugtoolbar", __name__)
@@ -298,3 +297,19 @@ def teardown_request(self, exc: BaseException | None) -> None:
  def render(self, template_name: str, context: dict[str, t.Any]) -> str:
  template = self.jinja_env.get_template(template_name)
  return template.render(**context)
+
+
+def __getattr__(name: str) -> t.Any:
+ import warnings
+
+ if name == "__version__":
+ warnings.warn(
+ "The '__version__' attribute is deprecated and will be removed in"
+ " Flask-DebugToolbar 0.17. Use feature detection or"
+ " 'importlib.metadata.version(\"flask-debugtoolbar\")' instead.",
+ DeprecationWarning,
+ stacklevel=2,
+ )
+ return importlib.metadata.version("flask-debugtoolbar")
+
+ raise AttributeError(name)