setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
SimMETIS: A python package to simulate METIS, based on SimCADO
"""
from sys import version_info
from datetime import datetime
import setuptools
import pytest  # not needed, but stops setup being included by sphinx.apidoc
from io import open     # in py3 just an alias to builtin 'open'.
                        # In py2.7, allows encoding='utf-8'

# Version number
MAJOR = 0
MINOR = 3
ATTR = ''
VERSION = '%d.%d%s' % (MAJOR, MINOR, ATTR)


def write_version_py(filename='simmetis/version.py'):
    '''Write a file version.py'''
    cnt = """
# THIS FILE GENERATED BY SIMMETIS SETUP.PY
version = '{}'
date    = '{}'
"""
    timestamp = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %T GMT')
    with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fd:
        if version_info.major == 2:
            fd.write(cnt.format(VERSION, timestamp).decode('utf-8'))
        else:
            fd.write(cnt.format(VERSION, timestamp))


with open("README.md", "r", encoding='utf-8') as fh:
    long_description = fh.read()


def setup_package():
    # Rewrite the version file every time
    write_version_py()

    setuptools.setup(name='SimMETIS',
                     version=VERSION,
                     description="METIS Instrument simulator",
                     author="Kieran Leschinski, Oliver Czoske, Rainer Köhler, Leonard Burtscher, Roy van Boekel",
                     author_email ="""kieran.leschinski@unive.ac.at,
                     oliver.czoske@univie.ac.at,
                     Rainer.Koehler@univie.ac.at,
                     burtscher@strw.leidenuniv.nl
                     boekel@mpia.de""",
                     url="http://metis.strw.leidenuniv.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=sim:simulator",
                     packages=['simmetis'],
                     package_data={'simmetis': ['data/*']}
    )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    setup_package()