A super generic Python3 setup.py

setup.py

import io
import os

from setuptools import find_packages, setup

# Author @hartsock 
#
# Why: copy into a directory with some python scripts you want to call a "library" 
# How: pip3 install -e .
#
# I often run into piles of Python scripts that _could_ be used as a python library. These often aren't 
# enough to warrant a WHOLE separate python library project, but it's nice to setup a Python3 venv to
# have these simple hacky "library" scripts available. 
#
# This is a version of a very super generic python setup.py that I use in these weird little corner cases.

# optionally allow for a requirements file if folks feel like it.
def read(*names, **kwargs):
    try:
        return io.open(
            os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *names),
            encoding=kwargs.get('encoding', 'utf8')
        ).read()
    except FileNotFoundError:
        return ""


# don't package and ship python test code in this library
packages = [item for item in find_packages('.', exclude=['test']) if not str(item).startswith('test')]

setup(
    # allow for package name to be determined by wherever we are
    name=os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
    packages=packages,

    # we scoop the installer requirements into the packager's definition here
    install_requires=read('requirements.txt').splitlines(),
)