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I wonder if @property + @lru_cache(maxsize=1) is a suitable alternative to emulate @cached_property on older python versions? How does it compare to @cached_property?

Thanks for this package!

In trying to package something that has this package as a dependency, I'd like to verify its (many) dependencies with pip check. If a dependency on backports.cached_property carries any version info, it fails here, as the METADATA file shipped has the fallback value of 0.0.0.

Would a PR be welcome that added a __version__?

If so, is there a preference in how to add it?

If there is no preference, I have an anecdotal experience: having had bad luck with other "elegant" approaches, the most stable form I have found is:

• check in a dumb VERSION text file, shipped in the module source folder
• at packaging time, read it from setup.cfg with the file: special key
• at runtime, read with the old-but-not-busted pkgutil... even works inside a .zip

Thanks again!

This package would be more useful to me if it also supported Python 2.7. What were the reasons not to support Python 2.7?