Should setuptools version propagate to a module's __version__? If so, how?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 10May2020 13:00, John Ladasky <john_ladasky at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 8:17:19 PM UTC-7, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> I also autopatch the module itself to
>> set __version__ to match when I make that release tag.
>
>Yes, that's exactly what the module I wrote for my company's internal use does.  The official version number is hard-coded into setup.py.  My setup.py opens my module's __init__.py, and patches the line that starts with "__version__ = ".
>
>I can see that this approach is one of several suggested approaches 
>described in the Python packaging guide.  If I'm going to work with a 
>package that eventually ends up on PyPI, I want to make sure that I 
>don't do something unexpected or fragile.

Yah. In my case the VCS tag is the reference from which I make the 
setup.py and patch the source file.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>