diff --git a/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst b/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst
index e300fa8f7..5c8af21e0 100644
--- a/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst
+++ b/source/guides/single-sourcing-package-version.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ Single-sourcing the package version
 There are many techniques to maintain a single source of truth for the version
 number of your project:
 
-#.  Read the file in :file:`setup.py` and get the version. Example::
+#.  Read the file in :file:`setup.py` and get the version. Example (from `pip setup.py
+    <https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/003c7ac/setup.py>`_)::
 
         import codecs
         import os.path