Merge pull request #24 from cleder/issue-23

Use pkg_resources to get the version from setup.py

fastkml/__init__.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ google maps rather than to give you all functionality that KML on google earth
 provides.
 """
 
+from pkg_resources import get_distribution, DistributionNotFound
 
 from .kml import KML, Document, Folder, Placemark
 from .kml import TimeSpan, TimeStamp
@@ -37,7 +38,10 @@ from .styles import LabelStyle, BalloonStyle
 
 from .atom import Link, Author, Contributor
 
-__version__ = '0.10.dev'
+try:
+    __version__ = get_distribution('fastkml').version
+except DistributionNotFound:
+    __version__ = 'dev'
 
 __all__ = [
     'KML', 'Document', 'Folder', 'Placemark',

setup.py

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand
 import sys
 import os
 
-import fastkml
-
 
 class PyTest(TestCommand):
     def finalize_options(self):
@@ -21,7 +19,7 @@ class PyTest(TestCommand):
 
 setup(
     name='fastkml',
-    version=fastkml.__version__,
+    version='0.10.dev',
     description="Fast KML processing in python",
     long_description=(
         open("README.rst").read() + "\n" +