diff --git a/compiler/Makefile b/compiler/Makefile
index 7435472f1..3bc5115db 100644
--- a/compiler/Makefile
+++ b/compiler/Makefile
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ release_tarballs:
 	docker container run --rm -v ${PWD}/../tarballs:/tarballs_volume concretefhe-compiler-manylinux:linux_x86_64_tarball cp -r /tarballs/. /tarballs_volume/.
 
 update_python_version:
-	echo "__version__ = \"`git describe --tags --abbrev=0 | grep -e '[0-9].*' -o`\"" > lib/Bindings/Python/concrete/version.py
+	echo "__version__ = \"`git describe --tags --abbrev=0 | grep -e '[0-9].*' -o`\"" > lib/Bindings/Python/version.txt
 
 .PHONY: build-initialized \
 	build-end-to-end-jit \
diff --git a/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt b/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt
index 8999e2bd8..3d75a5089 100644
--- a/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ declare_mlir_python_sources(ConcretelangBindingsPythonSources
   ROOT_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"
   SOURCES
     concrete/compiler.py
-    concrete/version.py
     concrete/__init__.py
     concrete/lang/__init__.py
     concrete/lang/dialects/__init__.py
diff --git a/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/concrete/version.py b/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/concrete/version.py
deleted file mode 100644
index bfc7b96ab..000000000
--- a/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/concrete/version.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#  Part of the Concrete Compiler Project, under the BSD3 License with Zama Exceptions.
-#  See https://github.com/zama-ai/homomorphizer/blob/master/LICENSE.txt for license information.
-
-__version__ = "0.1.0-rc1"
diff --git a/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/version.txt b/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/version.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7d1de2290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/lib/Bindings/Python/version.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = "0.1.0-rc1"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/setup.py b/compiler/setup.py
index 31486c298..f26fa1fa4 100644
--- a/compiler/setup.py
+++ b/compiler/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def read(fname):
 def find_version():
     return re.match(
         r"__version__ = \"(?P<version>.+)\"",
-        read("lib/Bindings/Python/concrete/version.py"),
+        read("lib/Bindings/Python/version.txt"),
     ).group("version")