diff --git a/tavolo/__init__.py b/tavolo/__init__.py
index 2ac13c1..6a3ab0c 100644
--- a/tavolo/__init__.py
+++ b/tavolo/__init__.py
@@ -1,16 +1,5 @@
-from pathlib import Path
-
-import toml
-
 from . import embeddings
 from . import learning
 from . import seq2vec
 
-
-def get_version():
-    path = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / 'pyproject.toml'
-    pyproject = toml.loads(open(str(path)).read())
-    return pyproject['tool']['poetry']['version']
-
-
-__version__ = get_version()
+__version__ = "0.8.0"