From 5c736ea7845cf7414dc46878d33a6231db07a40e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: devttys0 <cheffner@refirmlabs.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:41:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added improved version.py

---
 .gitignore                  |  1 -
 src/binwalk/core/version.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/binwalk/core/version.py

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4ae789e5..af5c03a0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 build
 dist
-version.py
 .coverage
 *.extracted
 *.pyc
diff --git a/src/binwalk/core/version.py b/src/binwalk/core/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7f98c1c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/binwalk/core/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+try:
+    from importlib import metadata
+    get_version = lambda : metadata.version("binwalk")
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        # Running on pre-3.8 Python; use importlib-metadata package
+        import importlib_metadata as metadata
+        get_version = lambda: metadata.version("binwalk")
+    except ImportError:
+        # 3rd fallback via pkg_resources
+        import pkg_resources
+        get_version = lambda : pkg_resources.get_distribution("binwalk").version
+
+__version__ = get_version()