setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Setup script for the package."""

import os
import sys

import setuptools


PACKAGE_NAME = 'starstruct'
MINIMUM_PYTHON_VERSION = 3, 5


def check_python_version():
    """Exit when the Python version is too low."""
    if sys.version_info < MINIMUM_PYTHON_VERSION:
        sys.exit("Python {}.{}+ is required.".format(*MINIMUM_PYTHON_VERSION))


def read_package_variable(key):
    """Read the value of a variable from the package without importing."""
    module_path = os.path.join(PACKAGE_NAME, '__init__.py')
    with open(module_path) as module:
        for line in module:
            parts = line.strip().split(' ')
            if parts and parts[0] == key:
                return parts[-1].strip("'")
    assert 0, "'{0}' not found in '{1}'".format(key, module_path)


def read_descriptions():
    """Build a description for the project from documentation files."""
    try:
        readme = open("README.rst").read()
        changelog = open("CHANGELOG.rst").read()
    except IOError:
        return "<placeholder>"
    else:
        return readme + '\n' + changelog


check_python_version()

setuptools.setup(
    name=read_package_variable('__project__'),
    version=read_package_variable('__version__'),

    description="StarStruct allows for easy binary stream pack/unpack",
    url='https://github.com/sprout42/StarStruct',
    author='Aaron Cornelius',
    author_email='a.aaron.cornelius@gmail.com',

    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),

    entry_points={'console_scripts': []},

    long_description=read_descriptions(),
    license='MIT',
    classifiers=[
        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
        'Natural Language :: English',
        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
        'Programming Language :: Python',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
    ],

    install_requires=open("requirements.txt").readlines(),
)