DM-38812: Prefer using importlib.metadata rather than __version__ #156
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For example jsonschema has decided to no longer support
__version__
and wants to use importlib.metadata.The downside of this is that importlib.metadata is much slower than asking for the
__version__
of a module that's already imported. Hundreds of milliseconds vs microseconds to get the package versions and importlib.metadata does not seem to cache the result.Checklist
doc/changes