#decrease memory consumption, use importlib.metadata to get package v…

…ersion instead of pkg_resources.get_dictribution
jmoiron · Oct 5, 2021 · cdf0328 · cdf0328
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commit cdf0328
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diff --git a/src/humanize/__init__.py b/src/humanize/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """Main package for humanize."""
-import pkg_resources
+import sys
 
 from humanize.filesize import naturalsize
 from humanize.i18n import activate, deactivate, thousands_separator
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@
     precisedelta,
 )
 
-__version__ = VERSION = pkg_resources.get_distribution(__name__).version
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 8, 0):
+    from importlib.metadata import version
+    __version__ = version(__name__)
+else:
+    import pkg_resources
+    __version__ = VERSION = pkg_resources.get_distribution(__name__).version
 
 
 __all__ = [