Adding 'install_requires' to setup.py when making a python package

Question

To make a python package, in setup.py, I have the following:

setup(
    name=\'TowelStuff\',
    version=\'0.1.0\',
    author=\'J. Random Hacke         


        

Answer 1

You need to be using setuptools instead of distutils.

Near the top of your script, try replacing

from distutils.core import setup

with

from setuptools import setup

Answer 2

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