fetching version from __version__ attribute

[europa502]

If I'm not wrong version attribute is not being set which makes it difficult to fetch the version of flask-compress.
Is there any other attribute which would provide this package's version info?

[alexprengere]

Looking at the linked issue from plotly/dash#1606, this is not related to flask-compress, and is a duplicate #22

[europa502]

Can you add __ version __ attribute for this package? It'd make it easier to fetch version info then.

[europa502]

Looking at the linked issue from plotly/dash#1606, this is not related to flask-compress, and is a duplicate #22

[alexprengere]

I agree that sometimes it is nice to have a version attribute to read in the sources, but nevertheless the preferred way to get the version of an installed package is:

>>> import pkg_resources
>>> pkg_resources.get_distribution('flask-compress').version
'1.9.0'

I do not mind adding the __version__ attribute, but I think this would be best served by using setuptools_scm here, so it would automatically generate the version.py containing __version__, when building the sdist, based on the git tag. So, instead of manually maintaining the version in 3 places (git tags, setup.py, version.py), only one place is needed.
It would also require to migrate to PEP517 beforehand.

[alexprengere]

I implemented the migration to setuptools_scm, so now a _version.py file is automatically generated when building the packages, based on the latest git tags. Once the release is published (or using the master branch), you should be able to access it with flask_compress.__version__.

Edit: 1.10.0 is now available on PyPI