Replace hardcoded and outdated __version__ (#17)

Author: hugovk

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        # Temporarily remove 3.13 pending:
+        # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pyfakefs/issues/1017
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4

LICENSE.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-blurb version 1.0
 Part of the blurb package.
 Copyright 2015-2018 by Larry Hastings
 

src/blurb/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import importlib.metadata
+
+__version__ = importlib.metadata.version(__name__)

src/blurb/blurb.py

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """Command-line tool to manage CPython Misc/NEWS.d entries."""
-__version__ = "1.1.0"
-
 ##
-## blurb version 1.0
 ## Part of the blurb package.
 ## Copyright 2015-2018 by Larry Hastings
 ##
@@ -62,6 +59,8 @@
 import time
 import unittest
 
+from . import __version__
+
 
 #
 # This template is the canonical list of acceptable section names!