setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

# read the contents of your README file
from pathlib import Path
this_directory = Path(__file__).parent
long_description = (this_directory / "README.md").read_text()

def get_git_tag():
    import subprocess
    tag = subprocess.check_output(["git", "describe", "--tags"]).decode("utf-8").strip()
    return tag

def get_version():
    try:
        version = get_git_tag()
        with open("VERSION", "w") as f:
            f.write(version)
        return version
    except:
        # Not a git repo
        pass

    with open("VERSION", "r") as f:
        version = f.read()
    return version

setup(
    name='docker-sand',
    version=get_version(),
    packages=find_packages(),
    entry_points={
        'console_scripts': [
            'sand = sand.internal.main:main'
        ]
    },
    install_requires=[
        "watchdog",
    ],
    author='Guy Kaplan',
    description='Sand is a Dockerfile generator based on python that allows you to write your Dockerfile in a more convenient way.',
    long_description=long_description,
    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
    license='MIT',
    keywords='sand docker dockerfile build',
    url='https://github.com/gkpln3/Sand',
    classifiers=[
    ],
)