[BUG] no __version__ attribute ?

[neutrinoceros]

Describe the bug

Not really a bug (but I don't think this qualifies as a feature request either):
rich has no version attribute, and the relevant info is rather stored in pyproject.toml

I have no experience with packaging with poetry. Would it make sense to you to use the python accessible version attribute in rich.__init__.py instead of pyproject.toml[tool.poetry] ? Thanks !

[willmcgugan]

poetry doesn't create __version__ attributes. They recommend using importlib.metadata to get the version. Details here python-poetry/poetry#144

Personally, I think its a step backwards.

[neutrinoceros]

I see !
Personally I'd be happy to have a way to get the version number from outside rich, so importlib.metadata.version is a satisfactory solution to me, and I don't need it to be done internally. Thank you for your answer !