fix version parsing

.github/workflows/test_suite.yml

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install Python dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade wheel coveralls
+          python -m pip install --upgrade wheel setuptools coveralls
           python -m pip install ".[test]"
 
       - name: Check third party dependencies

setup.py

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 """MoviePy setup script."""
 
-import os
 import sys
-from codecs import open
+from pathlib import Path
 
 
 try:
@@ -66,9 +65,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 
     cmdclass["build_docs"] = BuildDoc
 
-__version__ = None
-with open(os.path.join("moviepy", "version.py"), "r", "utf-8") as f:
-    __version__ = f.read().split(" ")[2].strip("\n").strip('"')
+__version__ = Path("moviepy/version.py").read_text().strip().split('"')[1][:-1]
 
 
 # Define the requirements for specific execution needs.
@@ -122,8 +119,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 }
 
 # Load the README.
-with open("README.rst", "r", "utf-8") as file:
-    readme = file.read()
+readme = Path("README.rst").read_text()
 
 setup(
     name="moviepy",