STY: version in docs

docs/conf.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 import sys
 # Need to set path before this can be imported
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..'))
-from sami2py import __version__  # noqa: E402
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -28,9 +27,13 @@
 copyright = ', '.join(['2021', author])
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = __version__[::-1].partition('.')[2][::-1]
-# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = __version__
+module_dir = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))[0]
+version_file = os.path.join(module_dir, project, 'version.txt')
+with open(version_file, 'r') as fin:
+    version = fin.read().strip()
+
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = '{:s}-alpha'.format(version)
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------