diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c3c76d0a..2a6b4a43 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import os
 from setuptools import setup
 
-__VERSION__ = "0.32"
+try:
+    __VERSION__ = os.popen("git describe --tags", "r").read().strip()
+except:
+    __VERSION__ = "0.32"
 
 open("smop/version.py","w").write("__version__='%s'\n" % __VERSION__)
 
diff --git a/smop/version.py b/smop/version.py
deleted file mode 100644
index cdd90ecf..00000000
--- a/smop/version.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-__version__='0.31'