Use requirements file

Author: freeman-lab

requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+setuptools
+requests
+numpy
+pytest
+matplotlib

setup.py

@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-#
 
 '''The setup and build script for the lightning-python library.'''
 
 __author__ = 'github@mathisonian.com'
 __version__ = '1.0.5'
 
-
-
 # The base package metadata to be used by both distutils and setuptools
 METADATA = dict(
   name = "lightning-python",
@@ -22,15 +19,11 @@
 )
 
 # Extra package metadata to be used only if setuptools is installed
-
-
-
 SETUPTOOLS_METADATA = dict(
-  install_requires = ['setuptools', 'requests', 'numpy', 'matplotlib'],
+  install_requires = open('requirements.txt').read().split(),
   include_package_data = True
 )
 
-
 def Read(file):
   return open(file).read()