Do not call _get_package_version() on import

Hopefully, helps out an xonsh issue on fedora?

xonsh/xonsh#3607

Author: jquast

setup.py

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ def main():
     """Setup.py entry point."""
     setuptools.setup(
         name='wcwidth',
+        # NOTE: manually manage __version__ in wcwidth/__init__.py !
         version=_get_version(
             _get_here(os.path.join('wcwidth', 'version.json'))),
         description=(

wcwidth/__init__.py

@@ -16,10 +16,18 @@
                       _bisearch,
                       list_versions,
                       _wcmatch_version,
-                      _wcversion_value,
-                      _get_package_version)
+                      _wcversion_value)
 
 # The __all__ attribute defines the items exported from statement,
 # 'from wcwidth import *', but also to say, "This is the public API".
 __all__ = ('wcwidth', 'wcswidth', 'list_versions')
-__version__ = _get_package_version()
+
+# I used to use a _get_package_version() function to use the `pkg_resources'
+# module to parse the package version from our version.json file, but this blew
+# some folks up, or more particularly, just the `xonsh' shell.
+#
+# Yikes! I always wanted to like xonsh and tried it many times but issues like
+# these always bit me, too, so I can sympathize -- this version is now manually
+# kept in sync with version.json to help them out. Shucks, this variable is just
+# for legacy, from the days before 'pip freeze' was a thing.
+__version__ = '0.2.4'

wcwidth/version.json

@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"tables": ["4.1.0", "5.0.0", "5.1.0", "5.2.0", "6.0.0", "6.1.0", "6.2.0", "6.3.0", "7.0.0", "8.0.0", "9.0.0", "10.0.0", "11.0.0", "12.0.0", "12.1.0", "13.0.0"], "package": "0.2.3", "default": "8.0.0"}
+{"tables": ["4.1.0", "5.0.0", "5.1.0", "5.2.0", "6.0.0", "6.1.0", "6.2.0", "6.3.0", "7.0.0", "8.0.0", "9.0.0", "10.0.0", "11.0.0", "12.0.0", "12.1.0", "13.0.0"], "package": "0.2.4", "default": "8.0.0"}