How to use “setup.cfg” instead of setup.py with Python 2.7

Question

It seemed to me, that instead of the whole plethora of named keyword-arguments for the distutils.core.setup function, one can use a setup.cfg file

Answer 1

I'm glad to say that since setuptools 30.3.0 (8 Dec 2016) declarative configuration in setup.cfg is available.

Documentation.