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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from distribute_setup import use_setuptools
+use_setuptools()
+
+from setuptools import setup
+import re
+import sys
+
+def load_version(filename='funcsigs/version.py'):
+    "Parse a __version__ number from a source file"
+    with open(filename) as source:
+        text = source.read()
+        match = re.search(r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]", text)
+        if not match:
+            msg = "Unable to find version number in {}".format(filename)
+            raise RuntimeError(msg)
+        version = match.group(1)
+        return version
+
+def load_rst(filename='docs/source/guide_content.rst'):
+    "Purge refs directives from restructured text"
+    with open(filename) as source:
+        text = source.read()
+        doc = re.sub(r':\w+:`~?([a-zA-Z._()]+)`', r'*\1*', text)
+        return doc
+
+setup(
+    name="funcsigs",
+    version=load_version(),
+    packages=['funcsigs'],
+    zip_safe=False,
+    author="Aaron Iles",
+    author_email="aaron.iles@gmail.com",
+    url="http://funcsigs.readthedocs.org",
+    description="",
+    long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
+    # long_description=load_rst(),
+    license="ASL",
+    install_requires = [],
+    classifiers = [
+        'Development Status :: 1 - Planning',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
+        'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+        'Programming Language :: Python',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
+    ],
+    tests_require = [] if sys.version_info[0] > 2 else ['unittest2'],
+    test_suite = "tests" if sys.version_info[0] > 2 else 'unittest2.collector'
+)