1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d576a96..e2523f9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ from setuptools import (
     find_packages,
 )
 
-from bs4 import __version__
-
 with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setup(
     name="beautifulsoup4",
-    version = __version__,
+    # NOTE: We can't import __version__ from bs4 because bs4/__init__.py is Python 2 code,
+    # and converting it to Python 3 means going through this code to run 2to3.
+    # So we have to specify it twice for the time being.
+    version = '4.8.1',
     author="Leonard Richardson",
     author_email='leonardr@segfault.org',
     url="http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/",