setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

from StringIO import StringIO
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

# avoid sectionlesslessness (& case insensitivity) of ConfigParser
# https://bugs.python.org/issue22253
config_IO = StringIO()
config_IO.write("[main]\n")
with open("PackageInfo.cfg") as f:
  config_IO.write(f.read())
config_IO.seek(0, os.SEEK_SET)
config = ConfigParser()
config.optionxform = str
config.readfp(config_IO)
info = dict(config.items("main"))

setup(name = info['PACKAGE'],
      version = "%(MAJOR)s.%(MINOR)s.%(MICRO)s%(TAG)s" % info,
      author = info['AUTHOR'],
      author_email = info['EMAIL'],
      url = info['URL'],
      description = info['DESCRIPTION'],
      license = info['LICENSE'],
      long_description = open('README.rst').read(),
      packages = find_packages(),
      package_data = {'':[os.path.join('*', '*.*')]},
      include_package_data = True,
      # requires = [],
      test_suite = info['PACKAGE'] + '.tests.test_suite',
      classifiers = [
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5',
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7', ],
      )