diff --git a/chardet/__init__.py b/chardet/__init__.py
index b1872fe..a6e0693 100755
--- a/chardet/__init__.py
+++ b/chardet/__init__.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # 02110-1301  USA
 ######################### END LICENSE BLOCK #########################
 
-__version__ = "1.0.1"
+__version__ = "1.0.3"
 
 def detect(aBuf):
     import universaldetector
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b64d850..aee4d00 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@
 if not hasattr(DistributionMetadata, 'download_url'):
     DistributionMetadata.download_url = None
 
+import chardet
+
 setup(
     name = 'chardet',
-    version = '1.0.3',
+    version = chardet.__version__,
     description = 'Universal encoding detector',
     long_description = """\
 Universal character encoding detector