From 6c2aa3089a212f23e4b878d65703517feb6b4ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nullableVoidPtr <30564701+nullableVoidPtr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 16:40:26 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Use importlib to retrieve package version

---
 qiling/__init__.py    | 7 ++++++-
 qiling/__version__.py | 3 ---
 setup.py              | 9 ++-------
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 qiling/__version__.py

diff --git a/qiling/__init__.py b/qiling/__init__.py
index 375f0373b..96f113377 100644
--- a/qiling/__init__.py
+++ b/qiling/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
+import importlib.metadata
 from .core import Qiling
-from .__version__ import __version__
+
+try:
+    __version__ = importlib.metadata.version(__package__ or __name__)
+except importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+    __version__ = "0.0.0"
 
 __all__ = ['Qiling']
diff --git a/qiling/__version__.py b/qiling/__version__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 94f2af16c..000000000
--- a/qiling/__version__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# NOTE: use "-dev" for dev branch
-#__version__ = "1.4.3"
-__version__ = "1.4.3" + "-dev"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d19877a57..5496da6cd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,15 +2,10 @@
 #
 # Python setup for Qiling framework
 
-import sys, os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
-gb = {}
-with open(os.path.join(here, "qiling", "__version__.py"), "r+") as f:
-    exec(f.read(), gb)
-
-VERSION = gb['__version__']
+# NOTE: use "-dev" for dev branch
+VERSION = "1.4.3" + "-dev"
 
 requirements = [
     "capstone>=4.0.1",