Please add a __version__ attribute to the module

[bjornfor]

It's a very common attribute, which I missed today.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0396/
https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/

[bjornfor]

As a workaround I did pip show cppimport | awk '/Version:/{print $2}.

[tbenthompson]

Yeah, reasonable request! I made a PR (#78). Once I confirm that everything is good to go, I'll push a release.

For future reference, in Python 3.8+, you should be able to get the version of any package with:

>>> from importlib.metadata import version
>>> version("cppimport")
'22.7.17.post1+g3d3de85.d20220802'

[bjornfor]

Thanks, that was quick! (And nice workaround, TIL.)

[tbenthompson]

I just pushed a release to pypi!