diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42567ea..f1483d6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,21 @@
 # pybitx
-BitX API for python
+BitX API for python ([See API documentation](https://www.luno.com/en/api)).
 
 # Installation
+```bash
+pip install pybitx
+```
+
+#### For Developers
+Clone this repo and create a virtual environment
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/CjS77/pybitx
+cd pybitx
+virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 env
+source env/bin/activate
+pip install -e .[dev]
+python2.7 tests/test_api.py # For good measure
+```
 
 # Usage
 
diff --git a/demo.py b/demo.py
index 8c9daca..f0d7a3b 100644
--- a/demo.py
+++ b/demo.py
@@ -1,16 +1,20 @@
-from pybitx.api import BitX
+from __future__ import print_function
+
 import os
 import pprint
 
+from pybitx.api import BitX
+
+
 pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4, width=80)
 
 
 def format_call(name, results):
-    print '-'*80
-    print '%50s' % (name,)
-    print '-'*80
+    print('-'*80)
+    print('%50s' % (name,))
+    print('-'*80)
     pp.pprint(results)
-    print '-'*80
+    print('-'*80)
 
 
 def runDemo():
@@ -21,9 +25,9 @@ def runDemo():
         user = os.environ['BITX_KEY']
         password = os.environ['BITX_SECRET']
     else:
-        print "Note: I couldn't find a BITX_KEY environment variable. This means that none of the API queries\nthat " \
-              "require authentication will work. I'll carry on anyway, but make sure your credentials are available " \
-              "in the BITX_KEY and BITX_SECRET environment variables and run this demo again"
+        print("Note: I couldn't find a BITX_KEY environment variable. This means that none of the API queries\nthat "
+              "require authentication will work. I'll carry on anyway, but make sure your credentials are available "
+              "in the BITX_KEY and BITX_SECRET environment variables and run this demo again")
     api = BitX(user, password)
     kind = 'auth' if auth else 'none'
     format_call('  Ticker   ', api.get_ticker(kind))
diff --git a/pybitx/__init__.py b/pybitx/__init__.py
index e0a914a..8945943 100644
--- a/pybitx/__init__.py
+++ b/pybitx/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import meta
-from api import BitX
+__version__ = "0.1.10"
 
-__version__ = meta.version
+
+from pybitx.api import BitX
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pybitx/api.py b/pybitx/api.py
index 7aacd21..b0e516d 100644
--- a/pybitx/api.py
+++ b/pybitx/api.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 import requests
 import logging
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
-from meta import version
+from pybitx import __version__
 import pandas as pd
 import json
 
-__version__ = version
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/pybitx/meta.py b/pybitx/meta.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ee2704..0000000
--- a/pybitx/meta.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-version = "0.1.10"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cef5496..1b71ca1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,9 +1,25 @@
+import os
+import re
+
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-import pybitx
+
+
+# Extract the version from the main package __init__ file
+PATTERN = '__version__\s+=\s+(?P<version>.*)'
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+with open(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'pybitx/__init__.py'), 'r') as f:
+  match = re.search(PATTERN, f.read())
+
+if match is None:
+    raise ValueError("failed to extract package version")
+
+version = match.groupdict()['version']
+
 
 setup(
     name='pybitx',
-    version=pybitx.__version__,
+    version=version,
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
     description='A BitX API for Python',
     author='Cayle Sharrock',
@@ -17,11 +33,9 @@
     ],
     license='MIT',
     url='https://github.com/CjS77/pybitx',
-    download_url='https://github.com/CjS77/pybitx/tarball/%s' % (pybitx.__version__, ),
+    download_url='https://github.com/CjS77/pybitx/tarball/%s' % (version, ),
     keywords='BitX Bitcoin exchange API',
     classifiers=[],
     test_suite='tests',
-    tests_require=[
-        'requests-mock>=0.7.0'
-    ]
+    extras_require={'dev': ['requests-mock>=0.7.0']}
 )
diff --git a/tests/test_api.py b/tests/test_api.py
index 668cf46..55a8f9c 100644
--- a/tests/test_api.py
+++ b/tests/test_api.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
+import base64
 import unittest
 import requests_mock
-import api
+
+from pybitx import api
 from pybitx.api import BitX, BitXAPIError
-import base64
 
 
 class TestBitX(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -66,8 +67,8 @@ class TestAPICalls(unittest.TestCase):
     @staticmethod
     def make_auth_header(auth):
         s = ':'.join(auth)
-        k = base64.b64encode(s)
-        return 'Basic %s' % (k,)
+        k = base64.b64encode(s.encode('utf-8'))
+        return 'Basic %s' % (k.decode('utf-8'),)
 
     def setUp(self):
         options = {