From 7691dccba016a9d77a00915964736643dcc9ac6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bu Sun Kim <8822365+busunkim96@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 16:52:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] chore: declare version as separate variable

This is the way release-please currently expects the version to be declared. https://github.com/googleapis/release-please/blob/4e0bf11b7f4217b5c6b8cd1aa9ea4db1bce06b89/src/updaters/python/setup-py.ts#L36
---
 setup.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5ecc19389c..2e7e7ca58a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
+version = '2.2a0'
+
 install_requires = [
     'sqlparse >= 0.3.0',
     'google-cloud >= 0.34.0',
@@ -17,7 +19,7 @@
         # Duplicate version here rather than using
         # __import__('django_spanner').__version__ because that file imports
         # django and google.cloud which may not be installed.
-        version='2.2a0',
+        version=version,
         author='Google LLC',
         author_email='cloud-spanner-developers@googlegroups.com',
         description=('Bridge to enable using Django with Spanner.'),