setup.py

from setuptools import setup,find_packages

import sys, platform
import os
import shutil
import json

def read(fname):
    with open(fname, mode = "r", encoding = "utf-8") as f:
        src = f.read()
    return src

def read_requirements():
    """Parse requirements from requirements.txt."""
    reqs_path = os.path.join('.', 'requirements.txt')
    with open(reqs_path, 'r') as f:
        requirements = [line.rstrip() for line in f]
    return requirements

codemeta_json = "codemeta.json"

# Let's pickup as much metadata as we need from codemeta.json
with open(codemeta_json, mode = "r", encoding = "utf-8") as f:
    src = f.read()
    meta = json.loads(src)

# Let's make our symvar string
version = meta["version"]

# Now we need to pull and format our author, author_email strings.
author = ""
author_email = ""
for obj in meta["author"]:
    given = obj["givenName"]
    family = obj["familyName"]
    email = obj["email"]
    if len(author) == 0:
        author = given + " " + family
    else:
        author = author + ", " + given + " " + family
    if len(author_email) == 0:
        author_email = email
    else:
        author_email = author_email + ", " + email
description = meta['description']
url = meta['codeRepository']
download = meta['downloadUrl']
license = meta['license']
name = meta['name']

# Setup for our Go based executable as a "data_file".
if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
    exec_path = "exec/Win/eputil.exe"
    OS_Classifier = "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 10"
elif sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
    exec_path = "exec/Linux/eputil"
    OS_Classifier = "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux"
elif sys.platform.startswith("darwin"):
    if platform.processor() == 'arm':
        exec_path = "exec/MacOS-M1/eputil"
    else:
        exec_path = "exec/MacOS/eputil"
    OS_Classifier = "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X"
else:
    print("Platform " + sys.platform + " not supported")
    sys.exit(1)

if os.path.exists(exec_path) == False:
    print("Missing executable " + exec_path + " in epxml_to_dataset module")
    sys.exit(1)

#Copy exec for running locally
shutil.copy(exec_path,'epxml_support/.')

setup(
        name = name,
        version = version,
        description = description,
        author = author,
        author_email = author_email,
        url = url,
        download_url = download,
        license = license,
        packages=find_packages(),
        py_modules = ["caltech_thesis","caltech_authors_tech_report"],
        data_files=[('.',['thesis-subjects.txt']),
                    ('epxml_support',[exec_path])],
        install_requires=read_requirements(),
        classifiers = [
        "Development Status :: Beta",
        "Environment :: Console",
        "Programming Language :: Python",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
        "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
        OS_Classifier
    ]
)