updating setup.py to setuptools

.gitignore

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 *.ipynb
 *.pyc
 *dist*
+*PyPlaque.egg-info*
 *MANIFEST*
 *__pycache__/*
 *ipynb_checkpoints*

README.md

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ pip install PyPlaque
 ```
 
 # Usage
+
 ```
 from specimen import PlaquesImageGray
 from phenotypes import Plaque
-
 ```
 
 Here's a test example of how to analyze plaques in an image using PyPlaque. First let's load an example image:
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ from skimage.io import imsave, imread, imshow
 img_url = 'https://raw.github.com/plaque2/matlab/master/Sample_B01_s1_w2.tif'
 img = imread(img_url)
 imshow(img)
-
 ```
+
 ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1135672/88387118-b8b10f00-cda9-11ea-8d5e-98edff82a80f.png)
 
 Now let's detect plaques in this flourescence microscopy image and print out all their coordinmates:
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ This will output following measurements:
 (782.8965517241379, 1151.510344827586)
 
 ...
-
 ```
 
 Each Plaque object containes a crop of individual virological plaque, as well as, measurements:

setup.cfg

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 
 # Inside of setup.cfg
 [metadata]
-description-file = README.md
+description-file = 'README.md',
+long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
+license_files = LICENSE

setup.py

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-from distutils.core import setup
+from setuptools import setup
 
 # read the contents of your README file
-from os import path
-folder_path = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
-with open(path.join(folder_path, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
+
+import pathlib
+
+cwd = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve()
+
+# Get the long description from the README file
+long_description = (cwd / 'README.md').read_text(encoding='utf-8')
 
 version = 'v0.0.3'
 
@@ -36,5 +39,5 @@
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
   ],
   long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown'
+  long_description_content_type='text/markdown'
 )