Mastering GUI Programming with Python

Writing the setuptools configuration

The primary purpose of setup.py is to call the setuptools.setup() function with keyword arguments, which will define our project's metadata as well as how our project should be packaged and installed.

So, the first thing we'll do is import that function:

from setuptools import setupsetup(    # Arguments here)

The remaining code in setup.py will be keyword arguments to setup(). Let's go through the different categories of those arguments.