From cc6e324924521c4dc2107b57eb0813bd7c837df1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jinzhe Zeng <jinzhe.zeng@rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 22:48:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix release version (#1658)

---
 .gitignore                   | 1 +
 pyproject.toml               | 2 +-
 reacnetgenerator/_version.py | 9 ++++++---
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 054d8fbc9..40100c451 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -196,3 +196,4 @@ bundle.*
 pip-wheel-metadata/
 
 _build/
+reacnetgenerator/_version2.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 449856012..67e4f6d96 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 requires = ["setuptools>=40.8.0", "wheel", "oldest-supported-numpy"] 
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
-write_to = "reacnetgenerator/_version.py"
+write_to = "reacnetgenerator/_version2.py"
 fallback_version = "Unknown"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/reacnetgenerator/_version.py b/reacnetgenerator/_version.py
index 976d3f47b..613b2b88e 100644
--- a/reacnetgenerator/_version.py
+++ b/reacnetgenerator/_version.py
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 """Obtain the version."""
 from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, get_distribution
 try:
-    __version__ = get_distribution('reacnetgenerator').version
-except DistributionNotFound:
-    __version__ = 'Unknown'
+    from ._version2 import version as __version__
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        __version__ = get_distribution('reacnetgenerator').version
+    except DistributionNotFound:
+        __version__ = 'Unknown'