setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
import os

from configparser import ConfigParser

PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
PROJECT_INI = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, "project.ini")

config = ConfigParser()
config.read(PROJECT_INI)


def get_config(opt):
    return config.get("project", opt)


NAME = get_config('name')
DESCRIPTION = get_config('description')
URL = get_config('url')
AUTHOR = 'nonamenix'
AUTHOR_EMAIL = 'nonamenix@gmail.com'
README_TXT = 'README.txt'
README = 'README.rst'
LONG_DESCRIPTION = open(os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, README), encoding='utf8').read()

REQUIREMENTS_FILE = 'requirements.txt'
REQUIREMENTS = open(os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, REQUIREMENTS_FILE)).readlines()

VERSION = get_config('version')
DEV_VERSION = os.environ.get('DEV_VERSION')
if DEV_VERSION:
    VERSION = '{}.dev{}'.format(VERSION, DEV_VERSION)
    config.set("project", 'version', VERSION)
    with open(PROJECT_INI, 'w') as f:
        config.write(f)

# create a README.txt file from .rst
with open(README_TXT, 'wb') as f:
    f.write(LONG_DESCRIPTION.encode())

setup(
    name=NAME,
    version=VERSION,
    description=DESCRIPTION,
    long_description='',
    author=AUTHOR,
    author_email=AUTHOR_EMAIL,
    url=URL,
    include_package_data=True,
    packages=find_packages(),
    install_requires=REQUIREMENTS,
)

# delete README.txt
os.remove(README_TXT)