Final changes for python 3 compatibility

MANIFEST.in

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ include INSTALL
 include LICENSE
 include MANIFEST.in
 include README
-include VERSION
 include HISTORY
 include setup.py
 include ez_setup.py

VERSION

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1.5.5

setup.py

@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ Description = open('README').read()
 
 License = open('LICENSE').read()
 
-Version = open('VERSION').read().strip()
+# read the version number safely from the constants.py file
+version_dict = {}
+exec(open('src/pulp/constants.py').read(), version_dict)
+VERSION = version_dict['VERSION']
 
 #hack because pyparsing made version 2 python 3 specific
 if sys.version_info[0] <= 2:
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@ else:
     pyparsing_ver = 'pyparsing>=2.0.0'
 
 setup(name="PuLP",
-      version=Version,
+      version=VERSION,
       description="""
 PuLP is an LP modeler written in python. PuLP can generate MPS or LP files
 and call GLPK, COIN CLP/CBC, CPLEX, and GUROBI to solve linear

src/pulp/__init__.py

@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ Module file that imports all of the pulp functions
 
 Copyright 2007- Stuart Mitchell (s.mitchell@auckland.ac.nz)
 """
-
-VERSION = '1.5.5'
+from .constants import VERSION
 
 from .pulp import *
 from .amply import *

src/pulp/constants.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 This file contains the constant definitions for PuLP
 Note that hopefully these will be changed into something more pythonic
 """
-
+VERSION = '1.5.5'
 EPS = 1e-7
 
 # variable categories