Dynamic versioning with setuptools_scm

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Can use setuptools_scm to dynamically set the version which is derived from Git tags.

Necessary lines in pyproject.toml

[build-system]
requires = [
  ...
  "setuptools[toml]>=8"
]

[project]
...
dynamic = ["version"]

[tool.setuptools_scm]
write_to = "isoslam/_version.py"

Optional addition if using pytest-cov to report test coverage.

[tool.coverage.run]
omit = [
  "isoslam/_version.py"
]

Can then import the version in __init__.py to make it available.

from importlib.metadata import version

release = version("<pkgname>")
__version__ = ".".join(release.split("."[:2]))