Commandline usage fails with, AttributeError: module 'barcode' has no attribute '__description__'

[jakkanen]

Installed python-barcode with, pip3.6 install python-barcode
Command-line usage fails as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/python-barcode", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/barcode/pybarcode.py", line 82, in main
    description=barcode.__description__, epilog=' '.join(msg)
AttributeError: module 'barcode' has no attribute '__description__'```