Dynamic versions in editable installations

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Another thing you can do is a simple evaluation during debugging, which is very useful and I for one end up doing a lot:

>>> np.__version__
'1.24.0.dev0+291.g2c5f407cf6'
>>> import importlib.metadata
>>> importlib.metadata.version("numpy")
'1.22.3'

importlib is wrong here, it doesn’t seem to understand PYTHONPATH. I don’t care too much that it’s less reliable here, since it’s completely unergonomical anyway for interactive use.

Agreed

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