Merge pull request #318 from CamDavidsonPilon/rst-readme

update setup.py to convert the md README to rst

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-![logo](http://i.imgur.com/EOowdSD.png)
+![](http://i.imgur.com/EOowdSD.png)
 
 [![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/lifelines.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/lifelines)
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/CamDavidsonPilon/lifelines.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/CamDavidsonPilon/lifelines)
@@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ You can optionally run the test suite after install with
     py.test
 
 
-### *lifelines* Documentation and an Intro to Survival Analysis
+### lifelines Documentation and an intro to survival analysis
 
 If you are new to survival analysis, wondering why it is useful, or are interested in *lifelines* examples and syntax,
 please check out the [Documentation and Tutorials page](http://lifelines.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html)
 
-Also around on [Gitter](https://gitter.im/python-lifelines/)
+
+### Contacting
+There is a [Gitter](https://gitter.im/python-lifelines/) channel available. The main author, Cam Davidson-Pilon, is also available for contact on email and twitter.
 
 
 ### Citing lifelines
@@ -63,4 +65,4 @@ You can use this badge below to generate a DOI and reference text for the lastes
  [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/12420595.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/12420595)
 
 
-![lifelines](http://i.imgur.com/QXW71zA.png)
+![](http://i.imgur.com/QXW71zA.png)

dev-requirements.txt

@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 pytest
 python-coveralls
 pytest-cov
-seaborn
+seaborn
+pypandoc

setup.py

@@ -3,16 +3,21 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 
 
-# Utility function to read the README file.
-# Used for the long_description.  It's nice, because now 1) we have a top level
-# README file and 2) it's easier to type in the README file than to put a raw
-# string in below ...
-def read(fname):
-    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
+def filepath(fname):
+    return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)
 
 exec(compile(open('lifelines/version.py').read(),
                   'lifelines/version.py', 'exec'))
 
+readme_md = filepath('README.md')
+
+try:
+    import pypandoc
+    readme_rst = pypandoc.convert_file(readme_md, 'rst')
+except(ImportError):
+    readme_rst = open(readme_md).read()
+
+
 setup(
     name="lifelines",
     version=__version__,
@@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ def read(fname):
               'lifelines.fitters',
               'lifelines.utils',
               ],
-    long_description=read('README.txt'),
+    long_description=readme_rst,
     classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",