setup.py

from setuptools import find_packages, setup

# read the contents of README file
from os import path
from io import open  # for Python 2 and 3 compatibility

# get __version__ from _version.py
ver_file = path.join('gears', 'version.py')
with open(ver_file) as f:
    exec(f.read())

this_directory = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))


# read the contents of README.md
def readme():
    with open(path.join(this_directory, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
        return f.read()


# read the contents of requirements.txt
with open(path.join(this_directory, 'requirements.txt'),
          encoding='utf-8') as f:
    requirements = f.read().splitlines()

setup(name='cell-gears',
      version=__version__,
      license='MIT',
      description='GEARS',
      long_description=readme(),
      long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
      url='https://github.com/snap-stanford/GEARS',
      author='Yusuf Roohani, Kexin Huang, Jure Leskovec',
      packages=find_packages(exclude=['test']),
      zip_safe=False,
      include_package_data=True,
      install_requires=requirements,
      setup_requires=['setuptools>=38.6.0']
      )