setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
import os

def read_requirements(fname):
    with open('requirements.txt') as file:
        lines=file.readlines()
        requirements = [line.strip() for line in lines]
    return requirements

def get_version():
    topdir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, '..'))
    with open(os.path.join(topdir, 'compol', '__init__.py'), 'r') as f:
        for line in f.readlines():
            if line.startswith('__version__'):
                delim = '"' if '"' in line else "'"
                return line.split(delim)[1]
    raise ValueError("Version string not found")
VERSION = get_version()

NAME = 'compol'
AUTHOR = 'Chong Sun'
DESCRIPTION = "Complex polarization analysis of many-body localization"
AUTHOR_EMAIL = 'sunchong137@gmail.com'
REQUIREMENTS = read_requirements('requirements.txt')

setup(
    name=NAME,
    version=VERSION,
    description=DESCRIPTION,
    author_email=AUTHOR_EMAIL,
    install_requires=REQUIREMENTS,
    packages=find_packages(exclude=['*test*', '*examples*']),
    include_package_data=True,
)