[Tutor] Question about packaging with distutils (specifying metadata)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 18 May 2010 08:27:09 am steve wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am preparing a package for distribution using distutils and when
> writing the setup.py, i want to specific meta-data like version,
> author, maintainer ...etc.
>
> My question is, assuming that I already have all of that information
> in the package's __init__.py as __<meta-data>__ variables(*), is it
> considered good 'style' to import the module one is packaging, in the
> setup.py to access these variables ?


It's considered good style to keep the setup.py script as simple as 
possible. But with that proviso, there's nothing wrong with importing 
your own modulo to access the metadata.



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Steven D'Aprano