setup.py

#!/usr/bin/python2.4
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'''The setup and build script for the python-twitter library.'''

__author__ = 'dewitt@google.com'
__version__ = '0.6'


# The base package metadata to be used by both distutils and setuptools
METADATA = dict(
  name = "python-twitter",
  version = __version__,
  py_modules = ['twitter'],
  author='DeWitt Clinton',
  author_email='dewitt@google.com',
  description='A python wrapper around the Twitter API',
  license='Apache License 2.0',
  url='http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/',
  keywords='twitter api',
)

# Extra package metadata to be used only if setuptools is installed
SETUPTOOLS_METADATA = dict(
  install_requires = ['setuptools', 'simplejson'],
  include_package_data = True,
  classifiers = [
    'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
    'Intended Audience :: Developers',
    'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
    'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
    'Topic :: Communications :: Chat',
    'Topic :: Internet',
  ],
  test_suite = 'twitter_test.suite',
)


def Read(file):
  return open(file).read()

def BuildLongDescription():
  return '\n'.join([Read('README'), Read('CHANGES')])

def Main():
  # Build the long_description from the README and CHANGES
  METADATA['long_description'] = BuildLongDescription()

  # Use setuptools if available, otherwise fallback and use distutils
  try:
    import setuptools
    METADATA.update(SETUPTOOLS_METADATA)
    setuptools.setup(**METADATA)
  except ImportError:
    import distutils.core
    distutils.core.setup(**METADATA)


if __name__ == '__main__':
  Main()