Switch to new way of getting version for Sphinx build.

Author: adamtheturtle

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 import datetime
-
-from pkg_resources import get_distribution
+import importlib.metadata
 
 project = "VWS-Python"
 author = "Adam Dangoor"
@@ -33,9 +32,9 @@
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
-# Use ``pkg_resources`` as per
+# Use ``importlib.metadata.version`` as per
 # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm#usage-from-sphinx.
-version = get_distribution(project).version
+version = importlib.metadata.version(distribution_name=project)
 _month, _day, _year, *_ = version.split(".")
 release = f"{_month}.{_day}.{_year}"
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ dev = [
     "sphinxcontrib-spelling==8.0.0",
     "types-freezegun==1.1.10",
     "types-requests==2.28.11.15",
-    "types-setuptools==67.6.0.0",
     "vulture==2.7",
 ]