traceback2 does not conform to PEP 396 (missing __version__ string)

[ddriddle]

For our package management we use automated tooling to extract version numbers from python packages. I would like to request that you add the __version__ attribute version string.

PEP 396 states:

• On a case-by-case basis, standard library modules which are also released in standalone form for other Python versions MAY include a module version number when included in the standard library, and SHOULD include a version number when packaged separately.
• When a module (or package) includes a version number, the version SHOULD be available in the __version__ attribute.
• The __version__ attribute's value SHOULD be a string.

[ddriddle]

Submitted pull request #3 to address this issue.

[berkerpeksag]

Thank you for the report and for the PR. Note that PEP 396 is not an accepted PEP and we recently got rid of several __version__ attributes in both standard library and their backports (see email for example) Also, some of the recent standard library modules and their backports don't even have __version__ attributes. See selectors34 for example.

And usually importing the module itself in setup.py is a bad practice.

Closing this issue as 'rejected'.