From a9e36a30b3df11aeae9924d7b40950f23fc1b7c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jab <jab@math.brown.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 15:59:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add __version__ attribute

---
 bidict/__init__.py    | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 setup.py              |  2 +-
 tests/test_version.py |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/test_version.py

diff --git a/bidict/__init__.py b/bidict/__init__.py
index 066b1f5..c074244 100644
--- a/bidict/__init__.py
+++ b/bidict/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
 """
-Main package which pulls in all bidirectional dict types
-and utilities for working with one-to-one mappings.
+Efficient, Pythonic bidirectional map implementation
+and related functionality.
+
+.. :copyright: (c) 2015 Joshua Bronson.
+.. :license: ISCL. See LICENSE for details.
+
 """
+
 from ._common import BidirectionalMapping, CollapseException
 from ._bidict import bidict
 from ._collapsing import collapsingbidict
@@ -19,3 +26,10 @@ __all__ = (
     'pairs',
     'inverted',
 )
+
+try:
+    from pkg_resources import resource_string
+    __version__ = resource_string(__name__, 'VERSION').decode('ascii').strip()
+except Exception as e:
+    from warnings import warn
+    warn('Failed to read/set version: %r' % e)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d0032f9..7157c40 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ try:
     with open('bidict/VERSION', encoding='utf8') as f:
         version = f.read().strip()
 except Exception as e:
-    version = '999999'
+    version = '0.0.0'
     warn('Could not open bidict/VERSION, using bogus version (%s): %r' %
          (version, e))
 try:
diff --git a/tests/test_version.py b/tests/test_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db67ffd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import bidict
+
+def test_version():
+    assert bidict.__version__