On: How To Package Your Python Code

[borntyping]

I put the version information inside the package, then anything with access to the package (which both setup.py and sphinx have) can access it - quite useful for doing things like checking the version number from the REPL, for instance.

[rhettg → borntyping]

It can be problematic to import your package from setup.py if you want your dependency specification to be useful.