Merge pull request #57 from florisla/version-module-attribute

Follow PEP 396: expose __version__ string as a module-level attribute

mypackage/__init__.py

@@ -1 +1,5 @@
+
+from ._version import VERSION
+__version__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
+
 from .core import *

mypackage/_version.py

@@ -4,5 +4,3 @@
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 VERSION = (5, 2, 0)
-
-__version__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))

setup.py

@@ -45,11 +45,12 @@ try:
 except FileNotFoundError:
     long_description = DESCRIPTION
 
-# Load the package's __version__.py module as a dictionary.
+# Load the package's _version.py module as a dictionary.
 about = {}
 if not VERSION:
-    with open(os.path.join(here, NAME, '__version__.py')) as f:
+    with open(os.path.join(here, NAME, '_version.py')) as f:
         exec(f.read(), about)
+        about['__version__'] = '.'.join(map(str, about['VERSION']))
 else:
     about['__version__'] = VERSION