VERSION = (2, 17, 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()