#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import sys
import subprocess
import pkg_resources


class SetupHelper (object):
    """
    SetupHelper streamlines the population of setup() function calls with
    contents from __init__.py and README.md.
    """

    def __init__(self, initfile="__init__.py", readmefile="README.md"):
        self.author, self.email, self.license, self.version = \
                self.get_init(initfile)
        self.author = ", ".join(self.author)
        self.long_description = self.get_long_description(readmefile)

    def check_version(self, name, majorv=2, minorv=7):
        """ Make sure the package runs on the supported Python version
        """
        if sys.version_info.major == majorv and sys.version_info.minor != minorv:
            sys.stderr.write("ERROR: %s is only for >= Python %d.%d but you are running %d.%d\n" %\
                        (name, majorv, minorv, sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor))
            sys.exit(1)

    def get_init(self, filename="__init__.py"):
        """ Get various info from the package without importing them
        """
        import ast

        with open(filename) as init_file:
            module = ast.parse(init_file.read())

        itr = lambda x: (ast.literal_eval(node.value) for node in ast.walk(module) \
            if isinstance(node, ast.Assign) and node.targets[0].id == x)

        try:
            return next(itr("__author__")), \
                   next(itr("__email__")), \
                   next(itr("__license__")), \
                   next(itr("__version__"))
        except StopIteration:
            raise ValueError("One of author, email, license, or version"
                        " cannot be found in {}".format(filename))

    def missing_requirements(self, specifiers):
        """ Find what's missing
        """
        for specifier in specifiers:
            try:
                pkg_resources.require(specifier)
            except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
                yield specifier

    def install_requirements(self, requires):
        """ Install the listed requirements
        """
        # Temporarily install dependencies required by setup.py before trying to import them.
        sys.path[0:0] = ['setup-requires']
        pkg_resources.working_set.add_entry('setup-requires')

        to_install = list(self.missing_requirements(requires))
        if to_install:
            cmd = [sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install",
                "-t", "setup-requires"] + to_install
            subprocess.call(cmd)

    def get_long_description(self, filename='README.md'):
        """ I really prefer Markdown to reStructuredText. PyPi does not.
        """
        try:
            import pypandoc
            description = pypandoc.convert_file('README.md', 'rst', 'md')
        except (IOError, ImportError):
            description = open("README.md").read()
        return description

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