diff --git a/ansi2html/converter.py b/ansi2html/converter.py
index df085e5..2579545 100755
--- a/ansi2html/converter.py
+++ b/ansi2html/converter.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     from ordereddict import OrderedDict
 
 from ansi2html.style import get_styles
+from ansi2html.version import VERSION_STR
 import six
 from six.moves import map
 from six.moves import zip
@@ -374,7 +375,7 @@ def main():
     $ task burndown | ansi2html > burndown.html
     """
 
-    parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=main.__doc__)
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=main.__doc__, version="%%prog %s" % VERSION_STR)
     parser.add_option(
         "-p", "--partial", dest="partial",
         default=False, action="store_true",
diff --git a/ansi2html/version.py b/ansi2html/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c9aad95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansi2html/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+VERSION = (0, 10, 0)
+VERSION_STR = '.'.join([str(e) for e in VERSION])
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	print(VERSION_STR)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ef7ae0f..cacf294 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 import sys
 
+sys.path.insert(0, '.')
+from ansi2html.version import VERSION_STR
+
 f = open('README.rst')
 long_description = f.read().strip()
 long_description = long_description.split('split here', 1)[1]
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='ansi2html',
-    version='0.10.0',
+    version=VERSION_STR,
     description="Convert text with ANSI color codes to HTML",
     long_description=long_description,
     author='Ralph Bean',