From 8adaf12845b76d9c158bf3aba7bfc3cde48abcd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?R=C3=A9mi=20Delaporte-Mathurin?=
 <40028739+RemDelaporteMathurin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:12:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added __version__ attribute

---
 FESTIM/__init__.py | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/FESTIM/__init__.py b/FESTIM/__init__.py
index faaab9477..bfe1a9255 100644
--- a/FESTIM/__init__.py
+++ b/FESTIM/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+try:
+    # Python 3.8+
+    from importlib import metadata
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        import importlib_metadata as metadata
+    except ImportError:
+        __version__ = "unknown"
+
+try:
+    __version__ = metadata.version("FESTIM")
+except Exception:
+    __version__ = "unknown"
+
+
 import sympy as sp
 
 x, y, z, t = sp.symbols("x[0] x[1] x[2] t")