From 36466741d5ab69389b30c82829ac1fe743ec9357 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Meissner <coder@safemailbox.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:20:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] more robust version extraction

---
 pynitrokey/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pynitrokey/__init__.py b/pynitrokey/__init__.py
index f78e564d..e35c7bc8 100644
--- a/pynitrokey/__init__.py
+++ b/pynitrokey/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 import pathlib
 
 
-__version__ = open(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / "VERSION").read().strip()
+__version_path__ = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve().absolute() / "VERSION"
+__version__ = open(__version_path__).read().strip()
 
 
 del pathlib