setup.py

import setuptools
import subprocess
import os

remote_version = subprocess.run(['git', 'describe', '--tags'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode("utf-8").strip()
assert "." in remote_version

assert os.path.isfile("pandaserd/version.py")
with open("pandaserd/VERSION", "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
    fh.write(f"{remote_version}\n")

with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
    long_description = fh.read()

setuptools.setup(
    name="pandaserd",
    version=remote_version,
    author="Nabila Abraham",
    author_email="nabila.abraham@gmail.com",
    description="Create ERD/data flow diagrams from pandas dataframes.",
    long_description=long_description,
    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
    url="https://github.com/nabsabraham/pandas-erd",
    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
    package_data={'pandaserd': ['VERSION']},
    include_package_data=True,
    python_requires='>=3.6',
    install_requires = [
            'pandas'
      ]
)