setup.py

import setuptools

# taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/458550/standard-way-to-embed-version-into-python-package
import re
VERSIONFILE = "cogsworth/_version.py"
verstrline = open(VERSIONFILE, "rt").read()
VSRE = r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]"
mo = re.search(VSRE, verstrline, re.M)
if mo:
    verstr = mo.group(1)
else:
    raise RuntimeError("Unable to find version string in %s." % (VERSIONFILE,))

setuptools.setup(version=verstr)