setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Generic setup script for single-package Python projects
# by Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>

from setuptools import setup

import re
import os
import glob

PACKAGE = 'mygpoclient'
SCRIPT_FILE = os.path.join(PACKAGE, '__init__.py')

main_py = open(SCRIPT_FILE).read()
metadata = dict(re.findall("__([a-z]+)__ = '([^']+)'", main_py))
docstrings = re.findall('"""(.*?)"""', main_py, re.DOTALL)

# List the packages that need to be installed/packaged
PACKAGES = (
    PACKAGE,
)

SCRIPTS = glob.glob('bin/*')

# Metadata fields extracted from SCRIPT_FILE
AUTHOR_EMAIL = metadata['author']
VERSION = metadata['version']
WEBSITE = metadata['website']
LICENSE = metadata['license']
DESCRIPTION = docstrings[0].strip()
if '\n\n' in DESCRIPTION:
    DESCRIPTION, LONG_DESCRIPTION = DESCRIPTION.split('\n\n', 1)
else:
    LONG_DESCRIPTION = None

# Extract name and e-mail ("Firstname Lastname <mail@example.org>")
AUTHOR, EMAIL = re.match(r'(.*) <(.*)>', AUTHOR_EMAIL).groups()

DATA_FILES = [
    ('share/man/man1', glob.glob('man/*')),
]

CLASSIFIERS = [
    'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
    'Intended Audience :: Developers',
    'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)',
    'Operating System :: OS Independent',
    'Programming Language :: Python',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
]

setup(name=PACKAGE,
      version=VERSION,
      description=DESCRIPTION,
      long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
      author=AUTHOR,
      author_email=EMAIL,
      license=LICENSE,
      url=WEBSITE,
      packages=PACKAGES,
      scripts=SCRIPTS,
      data_files=DATA_FILES,
      download_url=WEBSITE + PACKAGE + '-' + VERSION + '.tar.gz',
      classifiers=CLASSIFIERS,
      )