diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from setuptools import *
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsError
 import os
 import glob
-from txt2boil.version import version
+from txt2boil import __version__ as version
 
 
 class total_upload(Command):
diff --git a/txt2boil/main.py b/txt2boil/main.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/txt2boil/main.py
+++ b/txt2boil/main.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import textwrap
 import os
 from . import langs
 from . import language
-from .version import version
+from . import __version__ as version
 
 
 def main(argv=sys.argv[1:]):
now pulling version string from toplevel package