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importlib.metadata.version() goes stale on editable installs

importlib.metadata reads version from installed package metadata (the .dist-info directory). For editable installs, that metadata is written ONCE at install time and does not update when you bump the version in pyproject.toml. So importlib.metadata.version('mypkg') happily returns the OLD version string from the dist-info until you re-run pip install -e .. Worst-case bug: a CI job reads version() for a release tag comparison and cuts wrong builds.

contextUsing importlib.metadata.version('mypkg') to read a package's version at runtime from a project installed with pip install -e .
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