old_contents: import pkgutil
  __version__ = pkgutil.get_data(__package__, 'VERSION').strip()
  version_info = tuple(__version__.split('.')[:3])
  
  from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
  from scrapyd.config import Config
  
  
  def get_application(config=None):
      if config is None:
          config = Config()
      apppath = config.get('application', 'scrapyd.app.application')
      appfunc = load_object(apppath)
      return appfunc(config)
  
new_contents: import pkgutil
  
  __version__ = pkgutil.get_data(__package__, 'VERSION').decode('ascii').strip()
  version_info = tuple(__version__.split('.')[:3])
  
  from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
  from scrapyd.config import Config
  
  
  def get_application(config=None):
      if config is None:
          config = Config()
      apppath = config.get('application', 'scrapyd.app.application')
      appfunc = load_object(apppath)
      return appfunc(config)
  
subject: Fix version reading