Good idea, it is not necessary but defined in the metadata pep's. On the
other side, try with 'python setup.py develop'.

Jordi


2013/5/12 John Kurkowski <notifications@github.com>

> In tldextract/__init__.py:
>
> >  from tldextract import extract, TLDExtract
> >
> > -__version__ = "1.1.3"
> > +__version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution(__name__).version,
>
> Trying to python setup.py install, this line gives me a
>
> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: tldextract
>
> Some sort of circular dep there? Can we just get rid of this var, now that
> it's centralized in setup.py?
>
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