- introduced a version.py

- read version.py from setup.py without importing saqc
- set version to 2.0.1

saqc/__init__.py

@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """The system for automated quality controll package."""
 
-__version__ = "1.4"
+from saqc.version import __version__
 
-# import order: from small to big
 from saqc.constants import (
     UNFLAGGED,
     GOOD,
@@ -12,6 +11,7 @@ from saqc.constants import (
     BAD,
 )
 
+# import order: from small to big, to a void cycles
 from saqc.core import (
     Flags,
     SaQC,

saqc/version.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+__version__ = "2.0.1"

setup.py

 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+from distutils.util import convert_path
+
+# read the version string from saqc without importing it. See the
+# link for a more detailed description of the problem and the solution
+# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058802/how-can-i-get-the-version-defined-in-setup-py-setuptools-in-my-package
+vdict = {}
+version_fpath = convert_path("saqc/version.py")
+with open(version_fpath) as f:
+    exec(f.read(), vdict)
+version = vdict["__version__"]
 
 with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setup(
     name="saqc",
-    version="2.0.0",
+    version=version,
     author="Bert Palm, David Schaefer, Peter Luenenschloss, Lennard Schmidt",
     author_email="david.schaefer@ufz.de",
     description="Data quality checking and processing tool/framework",