From 587908457e28e079f7bbdb5cb1adc6b39c951234 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jannes=20H=C3=B6ke?= <jhoeke@uni-bremen.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:40:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] move version string to telegram/version.py (#361)

---
 setup.py             |  6 ++++--
 telegram/__init__.py |  3 ++-
 telegram/version.py  | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 telegram/version.py

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 840297e7a..3b114c51d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 """The setup and build script for the python-telegram-bot library."""
 
 import codecs
-import telegram
+import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ def requirements():
     return requirements_list
 
 with codecs.open('README.rst', 'r', 'utf-8') as fd:
+    execfile(os.path.join('telegram', 'version.py'))
+
     setup(name='python-telegram-bot',
-          version=telegram.__version__,
+          version=__version__,
           author='Leandro Toledo',
           author_email='devs@python-telegram-bot.org',
           license='LGPLv3',
diff --git a/telegram/__init__.py b/telegram/__init__.py
index bdfbd6ae6..0d52992dc 100644
--- a/telegram/__init__.py
+++ b/telegram/__init__.py
@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ from .constants import (MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH, MAX_CAPTION_LENGTH, SUPPORTED_WEBHOO
                         MAX_FILESIZE_DOWNLOAD, MAX_FILESIZE_UPLOAD,
                         MAX_MESSAGES_PER_SECOND_PER_CHAT, MAX_MESSAGES_PER_SECOND,
                         MAX_MESSAGES_PER_MINUTE_PER_GROUP)
+from .version import __version__  # flake8: noqa
 
 __author__ = 'devs@python-telegram-bot.org'
-__version__ = '5.0.0'
+
 __all__ = ['Audio', 'Bot', 'Chat', 'ChatMember', 'ChatAction', 'ChosenInlineResult',
            'CallbackQuery', 'Contact', 'Document', 'Emoji', 'File', 'ForceReply',
            'InlineKeyboardButton', 'InlineKeyboardMarkup', 'InlineQuery', 'InlineQueryResult',
diff --git a/telegram/version.py b/telegram/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f7798ad1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/telegram/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# A library that provides a Python interface to the Telegram Bot API
+# Copyright (C) 2015-2016
+# Leandro Toledo de Souza <devs@python-telegram-bot.org>
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Lesser Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/].
+
+__version__ = '5.0.0'