Do not set __version__

Author: adamtheturtle

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 import datetime
 
-import vws
+from pkg_resources import get_distribution
 
 project = 'VWS-Python'
 author = 'Adam Dangoor'
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
-version = vws.__version__
+#
+# Use ``pkg_resources`` as per
+# https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm#usage-from-sphinx.
+version = get_distribution(project).version
 _month, _day, _year, *_ = version.split('.')
 release = f'{_month}.{_day}.{_year}'
 

requirements.txt

@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ VWS-Auth-Tools==2019.12.28.3
 requests==2.22.0
 timeout-decorator==0.4.1
 urllib3==1.25.7
-setuptools-scm==3.3.3

setup.py

@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ def _get_dependencies(requirements_file: Path) -> List[str]:
 )
 
 setup(
-    use_scm_version={
-        'write_to': 'src/vws/_setuptools_scm_version.txt',
-    },
+    use_scm_version=True,
     setup_requires=['setuptools_scm', 'setuptools_scm_git_archive'],
     install_requires=INSTALL_REQUIRES,
     extras_require={'dev': DEV_REQUIRES},

src/vws/__init__.py

@@ -4,21 +4,10 @@
 
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from setuptools_scm import get_version
-
 from .query import CloudRecoService
 from .vws import VWS
 
 __all__ = [
     'CloudRecoService',
     'VWS',
 ]
-
-try:
-    __version__ = get_version(root='..', relative_to=Path(__file__).parent)
-except LookupError:  # pragma: no cover
-    # When pkg_resources and git tags are not available,
-    # for example in a PyInstaller binary,
-    # we write the file ``_setuptools_scm_version.py`` on ``pip install``.
-    _VERSION_FILE = Path(__file__).parent / '_setuptools_scm_version.txt'
-    __version__ = _VERSION_FILE.read_text()