From d3f4654d4b5d620cdb2c9926eee911116c35c74b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Robert=20Sch=C3=BCtz?= <mail@dotlambda.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:29:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] python: replace pkg_resources with importlib.metadata

Use of pkg_resources is discouraged in favor of importlib.resources,
importlib.metadata, and their backports.
---
 python/pyproject.toml            | 1 +
 python/src/deltachat/__init__.py | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index 4aa6666db..227fb73d2 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     "cffi>=1.0.0",
     "imap-tools",
+    "importlib_metadata;python_version<'3.8'",
     "pluggy",
     "requests",
 ]
diff --git a/python/src/deltachat/__init__.py b/python/src/deltachat/__init__.py
index 048d8e3a7..3d2734cca 100644
--- a/python/src/deltachat/__init__.py
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import sys
 
-from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, get_distribution
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
+    from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
+else:
+    from importlib_metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
 
 from . import capi, events, hookspec  # noqa
 from .account import Account, get_core_info  # noqa
@@ -11,8 +14,8 @@ from .hookspec import account_hookimpl, global_hookimpl  # noqa
 from .message import Message  # noqa
 
 try:
-    __version__ = get_distribution(__name__).version
-except DistributionNotFound:
+    __version__ = version(__name__)
+except PackageNotFoundError:
     # package is not installed
     __version__ = "0.0.0.dev0-unknown"