parse version instead of loading module

setup.py

@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ from io import open
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-import shared.multilingual
+
+def get_version(prefix):
+    import re
+    with open(os.path.join(prefix, '__init__.py')) as fd:
+        metadata = dict(re.findall("__([a-z]+)__ = '([^']+)'", fd.read()))
+    return metadata['version']
 
 
 def read(filename):
@@ -15,7 +20,7 @@ def read(filename):
 
 setup(
     name='django-shared-multilingual',
-    version=shared.multilingual.__version__,
+    version=get_version('shared/multilingual'),
     description=' Collection Django tools for multilingual websites.',
     long_description=read('README.md'),
     author='Erik Stein',

shared/multilingual/__init__.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-
-VERSION = (0, 1, 1)
-__version__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
+__version__ = '0.1.1'
+VERSION = tuple(int(d) for d in __version__.split('.'))