From 68784f63c0219aeb2c2d816347c41222fa48cdd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pax <13646646+paxcodes@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 05:44:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: provide __version__ attribute (#2573)

* fix: provide __version__ attribute

Pyinstaller is giving an error packaging a script that uses pydantic, "AttributeError: Module 'pydantic' has no attribute '__version__'"

See Issue #2572

* chore: add md file in changes folder

* test: __version__ attribute of pydantic module
---
 changes/2572-paxcodes.md | 1 +
 pydantic/__init__.py     | 2 ++
 tests/test_version.py    | 9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changes/2572-paxcodes.md
 create mode 100644 tests/test_version.py

diff --git a/changes/2572-paxcodes.md b/changes/2572-paxcodes.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aacad15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/2572-paxcodes.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add `__version__` attribute to pydantic module.
diff --git a/pydantic/__init__.py b/pydantic/__init__.py
index 2e7aab4..19e5432 100644
--- a/pydantic/__init__.py
+++ b/pydantic/__init__.py
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ from .tools import *
 from .types import *
 from .version import VERSION
 
+__version__ = VERSION
+
 # WARNING __all__ from .errors is not included here, it will be removed as an export here in v2
 # please use "from pydantic.errors import ..." instead
 __all__ = [
diff --git a/tests/test_version.py b/tests/test_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ef7c928
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import pydantic
+
+
+def test_version_attribute_is_present():
+    assert hasattr(pydantic, '__version__')
+
+
+def test_version_attribute_is_a_string():
+    assert isinstance(pydantic.__version__, str)