import re from setuptools import setup, find_packages import sys version = None with open('web/lib/version.inc.php', 'r') as f: for line in f.readlines(): match = re.match(r'^define\("AURWEB_VERSION", "v([0-9.]+)"\);$', line) if match: version = match.group(1) if not version: sys.stderr.write('error: Failed to parse version file!') sys.exit(1) setup( name="aurweb", version=version, packages=find_packages(), )