From 49a7c21ed2c1d38e8cac2f65223da7884551ea91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Petykiewicz <anewusername@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:59:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Move version number into VERSION file

to avoid importing mem_edit in setup.py
---
 MANIFEST.in          | 1 +
 mem_edit/VERSION     | 1 +
 mem_edit/__init__.py | 6 +++++-
 setup.py             | 9 ++++++---
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 mem_edit/VERSION

diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index c28ab72..2b8b271 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 include README.md
 include LICENSE.md
+include mem_edit/VERSION
diff --git a/mem_edit/VERSION b/mem_edit/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b04cfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mem_edit/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.2
diff --git a/mem_edit/__init__.py b/mem_edit/__init__.py
index 8391f4f..8947638 100644
--- a/mem_edit/__init__.py
+++ b/mem_edit/__init__.py
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ To get started, try:
 
 """
 import platform
+import pathlib
 
 from .utils import MemEditError
 
 
 __author__ = 'Jan Petykiewicz'
-version = '0.2'
+
+with open(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'VERSION', 'r') as f:
+    __version__ = f.read().strip()
+version = __version__
 
 
 system = platform.system()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bec3d13..5f6ecf2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-import mem_edit
-
 
 with open('README.md', 'r') as f:
     long_description = f.read()
 
+with open('mem_edit/VERSION', 'r') as f:
+    version = f.read().strip()
 
 setup(name='mem_edit',
-      version=mem_edit.version,
+      version=version,
       description='Multi-platform library for memory editing',
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ setup(name='mem_edit',
             'Topic :: Utilities',
       ],
       packages=find_packages(),
+      package_data={
+          'mem_edit': ['VERSION']
+      },
       install_requires=[
             'typing',
       ],