Merge pull request #291 from maxmind/greg/eng-2777

Use single source of truth for version from pyproject.toml

Author: horgh

HISTORY.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 History
 -------
 
+5.3.0
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+* The version is now retrieved from package metadata at runtime using
+  ``importlib.metadata``. This reduces the chance of version inconsistencies
+  during releases.
+
 5.2.0 (2025-11-20)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 

dev-bin/release.sh

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-perl -pi -e "s/(?<=__version__ = \").+?(?=\")/$version/gsm" src/geoip2/__init__.py
 perl -pi -e "s/(?<=^version = \").+?(?=\")/$version/gsm" pyproject.toml
 
 echo $"Test results:"

src/geoip2/__init__.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 """geoip2 client library."""
 
-__title__ = "geoip2"
-__version__ = "5.2.0"
-__author__ = "Gregory Oschwald"
-__license__ = "Apache License, Version 2.0"
-__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2013-2025 MaxMind, Inc."
+from importlib.metadata import version
+
+__version__ = version("geoip2")