This example shows:

• name is the only thing defined in setup.py

• 😊 (unicode in readme)

• Short description comes from this README

• py_modules is correctly populated due to existence of single.py module

• A couple of things are defined in single.py's docstring

• __version__ is also defined in single.py

• project layout is:

  |-- README.rst
  |-- setup.py
  |-- single.py           # Python module as single file, definitions are taken from here
  

• setup.py contents:

  from setuptools import setup
  
  
  setup(
      name='single',
      setup_requires=['setupmeta']
  )
  

• single.py contents:

  """
  This is a python package implemented by a single .py file
  
  license: MIT
  author: Someone someone@example.com
  """
  
  __version__ = '0.1.0'
  

• explain output:

            author: (auto-adjust ) Someone
                \_: (single.py:5 ) Someone someone@example.com
      author_email: (auto-adjust ) someone@example.com
       description: (README.rst:1) A package implemented by a single .py file
                \_: (single.py:2 ) This is a python package implemented by a single .py file
           license: (single.py:4 ) MIT
  long_description: (README.rst  ) 1600 chars: single: A package implemented by a single .py file ...
              name: (explicit    ) single
        py_modules: (auto-fill   ) ['single']
    setup_requires: (explicit    ) ['setupmeta']
           version: (single.py:8 ) 0.1.0