removing hard-coded version

gregory-halverson · gregory-halverson · commit 5ccc41eaa865 · 2025-08-01T11:37:20.000-07:00
diff --git a/PMJPL/__init__.py b/PMJPL/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
 from .PMJPL import *
+from .version import __version__
 
-from os.path import join, abspath, dirname
-
-with open(join(abspath(dirname(__file__)), "version.txt")) as f:
-    version = f.read()
-
-__version__ = version
 __author__ = "Gregory H. Halverson"
diff --git a/PMJPL/version.py b/PMJPL/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+from os.path import join, abspath, dirname
+
+from importlib.metadata import version
+__version__ = version("PMJPL")
diff --git a/PMJPL/version.txt b/PMJPL/version.txt
