setup.py

#import setuptools
import runpy
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

version_meta = runpy.run_path("./version.py")
VERSION = version_meta["__version__"]

with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
  long_description = fh.read()

def parse_requirements(filename):
        """Load requirements from a pip requirements file."""
        lineiter = (line.strip() for line in open(filename))
        return [line for line in lineiter if line and not line.startswith("#")]

setup(
  name="wqxweblib",
  version=VERSION,
  author="Jon Musselwhite",
  author_email="JMusselwhite@wvstateu.edu",
  description="A package for interacting with the EPA's WQX Web service",
  long_description=long_description,
  long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
  url="https://github.com/FlippingBinary/wqxweblib-python",
  packages=find_packages(),
  install_requires=parse_requirements("requirements.txt"),
  classifiers=[
    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
    "Natural Language :: English",
    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Hydrology",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
  ],
  python_requires='>=3.7',
)