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+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+# modules are all .py files starting with a capital letter
+import os
+import re
+
+py_modules = [f[:-3] for f in os.listdir('.')
+              if f.endswith('.py') and re.match(r'^[A-Z]', f)]
+
+setup(
+    name='majoros-utils',
+    version='0.1',
+    py_modules=py_modules,
+    description="Majoros lab utility classes",
+    author="Bill Majoros",
+    author_email='"Bill Majoros" <martiandna@gmail.com>',
+    license="GPL version 3"
+)