setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from distutils.core import setup

def find_version(path):
    import re
    # path shall be a plain ascii text file.
    s = open(path, 'rt').read()
    version_match = re.search(r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]",
                              s, re.M)
    if version_match:
        return version_match.group(1)
    raise RuntimeError("Version not found")

setup(name="bananaplots",
      author="Yu Feng",
      author_email="rainwoodman@gmail.com",
      url="http://github.com/bccp/bananaplots",
      version=find_version("bananas/bananas.py"),
      zip_safe=True,
      description="Plot bananas from combined MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) chains. For example, Planck or WMAP satellite likelyhood samples.",
      long_description=open("README.rst", 'rt').read(),
      packages=["bananas", "bananas.tests"],
      requires=['scikit_learn', 'matplotlib', 'numpy', 'scipy'],
    )