VERSION = (2, 12, 8, "final", 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()