Perfect setup.py

setup.py

import pip

try:
    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup, find_packages

links = []  # for repo urls (dependency_links)
requires = []  # for package names

try:
    requirements = pip.req.parse_requirements('requirements.txt')
except:
    # new versions of pip requires a session
    requirements = pip.req.parse_requirements(
        'requirements.txt', session=pip.download.PipSession()
    )

for item in requirements:
    if getattr(item, 'url', None):  # older pip has url
        links.append(str(item.url))
    if getattr(item, 'link', None):  # newer pip has link
        links.append(str(item.link))
    if item.req:
        requires.append(str(item.req))  # always the package name 

setup(
    name='My Porject',
    version="0.0.0",  # avoid reading version from __init__.py it belongs here
    url='https://github.com/myname/myproject',  # repo is prefered over project site
    license='FREE',
    author="Super Man",
    author_email="me@world.com",
    description='Awesome project',  # small description, avoid extra read from outer file
    long_description="Python rulez",  # it needs to be an .rst file open().read() from somewhere
    packages=find_packages(),
    include_package_data=True,
    zip_safe=False,
    platforms='any',
    install_requires=requires,
    dependency_links=links
)