from setuptools import setup
import ast
import os

def version():
    """Return version string."""
    with open(os.path.join('curtsies', '__init__.py')) as input_file:
        for line in input_file:
            if line.startswith('__version__'):
                return ast.parse(line).body[0].value.s

setup(name='curtsies',
      version=version(),
      description='Curses-like terminal wrapper, with colored strings!',
      url='https://github.com/thomasballinger/curtsies',
      author='Thomas Ballinger',
      author_email='thomasballinger@gmail.com',
      license='MIT',
      packages=['curtsies'],
      install_requires = [
          'blessings==1.5.1'
      ],
      classifiers=[
          'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
          'Environment :: Console',
          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
          'Operating System :: POSIX',
          'Programming Language :: Python',
          ],
      zip_safe=False)

from setuptools import setup
import curtsies

setup(name='curtsies',
      version=curtsies.__version__,
      description='Curses-like terminal wrapper, with colored strings!',
      url='https://github.com/thomasballinger/curtsies',
      author='Thomas Ballinger',
      author_email='thomasballinger@gmail.com',
      license='MIT',
      packages=['curtsies'],
      install_requires = [
          'blessings==1.5.1'
      ],
      classifiers=[
          'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
          'Environment :: Console',
          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
          'Operating System :: POSIX',
          'Programming Language :: Python',
          ],
      zip_safe=False)

--- 
+++ 
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
 from setuptools import setup
-import curtsies
+import ast
+import os
+
+def version():
+    """Return version string."""
+    with open(os.path.join('curtsies', '__init__.py')) as input_file:
+        for line in input_file:
+            if line.startswith('__version__'):
+                return ast.parse(line).body[0].value.s
 
 setup(name='curtsies',
-      version=curtsies.__version__,
+      version=version(),
       description='Curses-like terminal wrapper, with colored strings!',
       url='https://github.com/thomasballinger/curtsies',
       author='Thomas Ballinger',
Fix installation, broken since started doing import in __init__

Thanks @myint for the catch and code suggestion
