diff --git a/swig/python/gdal-utils/osgeo_utils/gdal2tiles.py b/swig/python/gdal-utils/osgeo_utils/gdal2tiles.py
index 2d970a6de3fd..a24cb6df1282 100644
--- a/swig/python/gdal-utils/osgeo_utils/gdal2tiles.py
+++ b/swig/python/gdal-utils/osgeo_utils/gdal2tiles.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     # 'antialias' resampling is not available
     numpy_available = False
 
-__version__ = "$Id$"
+__version__ = gdal.__version__
 
 resampling_list = (
     "average",