From dd466beca8118553ad6177024b9178916301d486 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Koefferlein <matthias@klayout.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:41:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Simple implementation of __version__

---
 src/pymod/distutils_src/klayout/__init__.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pymod/distutils_src/klayout/__init__.py b/src/pymod/distutils_src/klayout/__init__.py
index a01e9cdd4..58363d3c0 100644
--- a/src/pymod/distutils_src/klayout/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pymod/distutils_src/klayout/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-# klayout library definition file
+
+from importlib import metadata
+
+try:
+    __version__ = metadata.version('klayout')
+except Exception:
+    __version__ = 'unknown'