Use partition to avoid integer literals

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index 59787a95..c4071f11 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -2470,7 +2470,8 @@ def _version_from_file(lines):
     is_version_line = lambda line: line.lower().startswith('version:')
     version_lines = filter(is_version_line, lines)
     line = next(iter(version_lines))
-    return safe_version(line.split(':', 1)[1].strip())
+    _, _, value = line.partition(':')
+    return safe_version(value.strip())
 
 
 class Distribution(object):