diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9dd2c3f..11ec636 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ from io import open
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-import shared.utils
+
+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-utils',
-    version=shared.utils.__version__,
+    version=get_version('shared/utils'),
     description=' Mix of Python and Django utility functions, classed etc.',
     long_description=read('README.md'),
     author='Erik Stein',
diff --git a/shared/utils/__init__.py b/shared/utils/__init__.py
index 5b46ba4..3db79a6 100644
--- a/shared/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/shared/utils/__init__.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 # Erik Stein <code@classlibrary.net>, 2007-2016
 
-VERSION = (0, 2, 1)
-__version__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
+__version__ = '0.2.1'
+VERSION = tuple(int(d) for d in __version__.split('.'))
 
 
 try: