diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b9dd3b7e..0ed2abc3 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ dist: xenial
 
 matrix:
   include:
-    - python: 3.5
-      env:
-        - TOX_ENV=py35
     - python: 3.6
       env:
         - TOX_ENV=py36
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 98377d5d..ef918784 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,14 +17,20 @@ def read(fname):
 # On Python 3, we can't "from hamcrest import __version__" (get ImportError),
 # so we extract the variable assignment and execute it ourselves.
 fh = open("src/hamcrest/__init__.py")
+
+# this will be overridden
+__version__ = None
 try:
     for line in fh:
         if re.match("__version__.*", line):
             exec(line)
+
 finally:
     if fh:
         fh.close()
 
+assert __version__ is not None
+
 params = dict(
     name="PyHamcrest",
     version=__version__,  # flake8:noqa
@@ -52,7 +58,6 @@ def read(fname):
         "Natural Language :: English",
         "Operating System :: OS Independent",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",