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-# Copyright (c) 2008,2010,2015,2016,2019 MetPy Developers.
-# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-"""Setup script for installing MetPy."""
-
-import sys
-
-from setuptools import setup
-
-if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-    error = """
-    If you're using Python 2.7, please install MetPy v0.11.1,
-    which is the last release of MetPy that supports Python 2.7,
-    but it is no longer maintained.
-
-    Python {py} detected.
-    """.format(py='.'.join(str(v) for v in sys.version_info[:3]))
-
-    print(error)  # noqa: T201
-    sys.exit(1)
-
-setup(use_scm_version={'version_scheme': 'post-release'})