Use setuptools_scm for version numbers

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/cmd2/__init__.py b/cmd2/__init__.py
index f61b7165..2de297d3 100644
--- a/cmd2/__init__.py
+++ b/cmd2/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 #
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """This simply imports certain things for backwards compatibility."""
-from .cmd2 import __version__, Cmd, Statement, EmptyStatement, categorize
+
+from pkg_resources import get_distribution, DistributionNotFound
+try:
+    __version__ = get_distribution(__name__).version
+except DistributionNotFound:
+    # package is not installed
+    pass
+
+from .cmd2 import Cmd, Statement, EmptyStatement, categorize
 from .cmd2 import with_argument_list, with_argparser, with_argparser_and_unknown_args, with_category
-from .pyscript_bridge import CommandResult
\ No newline at end of file
+from .pyscript_bridge import CommandResult