Setuptools-Autometa 0.1.0

Add autometa keyword to setuptools.setup for automatic version, description andlong_desctiption.

To use it, pass module (without .py), or package name as autometa keyword argument for setup():

#! /usr/bin/env python
from setuptools import setup

setup(
    autometa='test',
    name='Test',
    packages=['test'],
    ...
)

And in test/__init__.py:

"""First line of docstring.

Many
more
lines
of
docstring.
"""
__version__ = '1.2.3.dev0'  # alternatively: (1, 2, 3, 'dev0')

It will parse specified module file or package’s __init__.py and set version to its __version__ attribute, description to first line of its docstring, and long_description to the rest of the docstring.

NOTE Please note, that version is parsed by running ast.literal_eval <https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html?highlight=ast#ast.literal_eval> on the right side of assignment to __version__, so keep in mind that it can only be a string literal , or a list/tuple of string/integer literals.

Additionally you can whitelist which fields are to be parsed by using autometa_fields keyword argument and setting it to an iterable of field names.