setup.py

import setuptools
import subprocess
import os

soft7_version = subprocess.run(['git', 'describe', '--tags'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode("utf-8").strip()
assert "." in soft7_version

assert os.path.isfile("soft/version.py")
with open("soft/VERSION", "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
    fh.write(f"{soft7_version}\n")

with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
    long_description = fh.read()

setuptools.setup(
    name="soft7-pkg-quaat",
    version=soft7_version,
    author="Quaat",
    author_email="nims@quaat.com",
    description="SOFT7 semantic interoperability framework",
    long_description=long_description,
    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
    url="https://github.com/quaat/soft7",
    classifiers=[
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
    ],
    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
    package_data={'soft7-pkg-quaat': ['VERSION']},
    include_package_data=True,
    python_requires='>=3.7',
)