diff -r ece69ca3ac24 -r 6ec0300b626e src/p4l/__init__.py
--- a/src/p4l/__init__.py	Thu Sep 26 15:24:41 2013 +0200
+++ b/src/p4l/__init__.py	Sat Sep 28 02:55:26 2013 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+VERSION = (0, 1, 0, "alpha", 0)
+
+
+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 alpha' % version
+    else:
+        if VERSION[3] != 'final':
+            version = '%s %s %s' % (version, VERSION[3], VERSION[4])
+    return version
+
+__version__ = get_version()