I am getting the version of my package using this code:

import importlib.metadata
importlib.metadata.version("mypackage")

As documented in this question

I would like to avoid hardcoding “mypackage” in this code and instead retrieve the package name from somewhere. How can I do that?

Other info – I am using poetry to manage dependencies. The package name is in my pyproject.toml file.

Option #1

Parse the __name__ variable. Something like this probably works: __name__.split(".")[0]

This seems like a bad idea.

Option 2 – Parse the pyproject.toml file and grab the name from there.