diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f943213..3ec3eb4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 # we get the package version from inside our package, since we then
 # can use it also from within the package
-execfile('ldapuserdir/version.py')
+from ldapuserdir.version import __version__
+#execfile('ldapuserdir/version.py')
 
 setup(
     name = "ldapuserdir",