diff -r b4ed8cdc654c -r 0fe2f3f5466f src/hp/__init__.py
--- a/src/hp/__init__.py	Wed Nov 07 11:48:38 2012 +0100
+++ b/src/hp/__init__.py	Tue Nov 13 16:20:34 2012 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+VERSION = (0, 1, 0, "alpha", 0)
+
+VERSION_STR = unicode(".".join(map(lambda i:"%02d" % (i,), VERSION[:2])))
+
+
+def get_version():
+    version = '%s.%s' % (VERSION[0], VERSION[1])
+    if VERSION[2]:
+        version = '%s.%s' % (version, VERSION[2])
+    if VERSION[3:] == ('alpha', 0):
+        version = '%s pre-alpha' % version
+    else:
+        if VERSION[3] != 'final':
+            version = '%s %s %s' % (version, VERSION[3], VERSION[4])
+    return version
+
+__version__ = get_version()