Merge pull request #224 from edx/aht/BOM-3039-STANDARDIZE-VERSION-NUMBER

Standardize version number placement

setup.py

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+import os
+import re
 
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-import organizations
-
 
 def load_requirements(*requirements_paths):
     """
@@ -28,9 +28,26 @@ def is_requirement(line):
     return line and not line.startswith(('-r', '#', '-e', 'git+', '-c'))
 
 
+def get_version(*file_paths):
+    """
+    Extract the version string from the file at the given relative path fragments.
+    """
+    filename = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *file_paths)
+    with open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as opened_file:
+        version_file = opened_file.read()
+        version_match = re.search(r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]",
+                                  version_file, re.M)
+    if version_match:
+        return version_match.group(1)
+    raise RuntimeError('Unable to find version string.')
+
+
+VERSION = get_version("organizations", "__init__.py")
+
+
 setup(
     name='edx-organizations',
-    version=organizations.__version__,
+    version=VERSION,
     description='Organization management module for Open edX',
     long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
     author='edX',