Setuptools-Autometa 0.1.1.post2

Add autometa keyword to the setuptools.setup function which automatically fills version, description and long_description keywords

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

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

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

Setuptools-Autometa will parse the specified module or package’s __init__.py and set version to its __version__ attribute, description to the first line of its docstring, and long_description to the rest of the docstring. Additionally build_sphinx command’s version and release options will be set.

For example following package’s __init__.py:

"""First line of docstring.

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

Is equivalent to writing:

setup(
    version='1.2.3.dev0',
    description='First line of docstring',
    long_description='Many\nmore\nlines\nof\ndocstring.'
    ...
)

NOTE: Please note, that the version is parsed by running ast.literal_eval on the right side of the assignment to __version__, so keep in mind that it can only be a string literal, or a list/tuple of string/integer literals.

NOTE: Setuptools-Autometa assumes a PEP 0257 compliant docstring, that is its first line has to end with a period and be separated from the description by a blank line.

Additionally you can whitelist which fields are to be parsed by using the autometa_fields keyword argument and setting it to an iterable of field names (‘description’, ‘long_description’, ‘version’).