On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> wrote:

Hi!

I've seen people putting 'setuptools' in 'install_requires' in
setup.py starting with import from setuptools like this:
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

Does it make any sense?
In what circumstances should 'setuptools' be listed in
'install_requires' or 'setup_requires'?

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but you can list setuptools in setup.cfg as part of setup_requires and then tools that read setup.cfg instead of/prior to executing setup.py can know they need setuptools to properly execute setup.py.