The except block will get triggered every time somebody installs this directly using pip, and that leaves the current directly in a dirty state, which breaks any code that assumes the cwd is in the current directory.
This fix just ensures that the current working dir is unchanged, regardless of what happens.
A good way of handling versions that avoids all this trouble (and works in all cases, including when the app is installed from a tarball) is to use python-versioneer: https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer.
peteboyd
commented
6 years ago
The except block will get triggered every time somebody installs this directly using pip, and that leaves the current directly in a dirty state, which breaks any code that assumes the cwd is in the current directory.
This fix just ensures that the current working dir is unchanged, regardless of what happens.
A good way of handling versions that avoids all this trouble (and works in all cases, including when the app is installed from a tarball) is to use python-versioneer: https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer.