From ebb74ec435402fd1f3f00e160f639256bac9172e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Avaylon <mavaylon1@berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:57:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update __init__.py

---
 src/pynwb/__init__.py | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pynwb/__init__.py b/src/pynwb/__init__.py
index 5e29caede..607fe6a9e 100644
--- a/src/pynwb/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pynwb/__init__.py
@@ -391,8 +391,15 @@ def export(self, **kwargs):
 from hdmf.data_utils import DataChunkIterator  # noqa: F401,E402
 from hdmf.backends.hdf5 import H5DataIO  # noqa: F401,E402
 
-from . import _version    # noqa: F401,E402
-__version__ = _version.get_versions()['version']
+try:
+    # see https://effigies.gitlab.io/posts/python-packaging-2023/
+    from ._version import __version__
+except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
+    # this is a relatively slower method for getting the version string
+    from importlib.metadata import version  # noqa: E402
+
+    __version__ = version("pynwb")
+    del version
 
 from ._due import due, BibTeX  # noqa: E402
 due.cite(