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cx1111 · cx1111 · commit 02a76b083e5a · 2018-02-10T20:13:38.000-05:00
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Core components of this package are based on the original WFDB specifications. T
 Documentation and Usage
 -----------------------
 
-See the documentation site for the public APIs.
+See the `documentation site`_ for the public APIs.
 
 See the `demo.ipynb`_ notebook file for more example use cases.
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Contributing
 We welcome community contributions in the form of pull requests. When contributing code, please ensure:
 
 * PEP8_ style guidelines are followed.
-* Documentation is provided. New functions and classes should have numpy/scipy style docstrings_. 
+* Documentation is provided. New functions and classes should have numpy/scipy style docstrings_.
 * Unit tests are written for new features that are not covered by `existing tests`_.
 
 
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ Authors
 .. |Build Status| image:: https://travis-ci.org/MIT-LCP/wfdb-python.svg?branch=master
    :target: https://travis-ci.org/MIT-LCP/wfdb-python
 
+.. _documentation site: http://wfdb.readthedocs.io
+
 .. _PEP8: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
 .. _docstrings: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt
 .. _existing tests: https://github.com/MIT-LCP/wfdb-python/tree/master/tests
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
@@ -50,15 +50,16 @@
 copyright = '2018, MIT Lab for Computational Physiology'
 author = 'Chen Xie, Julien Dubiel'
 
-import wfdb
+with open('../wfdb/version.py') as f:
+    __version__ = f.read().split()[-1].strip("'")
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = wfdb.__version__
+version = __version__
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = wfdb.__version__
+release = __version__
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
