reuse README.rst on PyPI

ambv · gsnedders · commit e7c37f1d2472 · 2013-05-04T20:56:36.000+01:00
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ html5lib
 ========
 
 html5lib is a pure-python library for parsing HTML. It is designed to
-conform to the HTML specification, as is implemented by all major web
-browsers.
+conform to the WHATWG HTML specification, as is implemented by all major
+web browsers.
 
 
 Requirements
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ may or may not work; if you wish to try, you are strongly encouraged
 to run the testsuite and report back!
 
 The only required library dependency is ``six``, this can be found
-packaged in PyPi.
+packaged in PyPI.
 
 Optionally:
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Optionally:
 - ``genshi`` has a treewalker (but not builder); and
 
 - ``chardet`` can be used as a fallback when character encoding cannot
-  be determined (note currently this is only packaged on PyPi for
+  be determined (note currently this is only packaged on PyPI for
   Python 2, though several package managers include unofficial ports
   to Python 3).
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 from distutils.core import setup
 import os
-
-long_description="""HTML parser designed to follow the WHATWG HTML
-specification. The parser is designed to handle all flavours of HTML and
-parses invalid documents using well-defined error handling rules compatible
-with the behaviour of major desktop web browsers.
-
-Output is to a tree structure; the current release supports output to
-DOM, ElementTree, and lxml tree formats as well as a
-simple custom format"""
+import codecs
 
 classifiers=[
     'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
@@ -28,6 +20,9 @@
                            if os.path.isdir(os.path.join('html5lib', name)) and
                            not name.startswith('.') and name != 'tests']
 
+with codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.rst'), 'r', 'utf8') as ld_file:
+    long_description = ld_file.read()
+
 setup(name='html5lib',
       version='1.0b1',
       url='https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python',
