blog/how-to-store-your-python-package-metadata

setup.py

import os

from setuptools import setup

base_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)

about = {}
with open(os.path.join(base_dir, "my_package", "__about__.py")) as f:
    exec(f.read(), about)

setup(
    name=about["__title__"],
    version=about["__version__"],
    description=about["__summary__"],
    author=about["__author__"],
    author_email=about["__email__"],
    url=about["__uri__"],
    license=about["__license__"]
)