setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from setuptools.command.install import install
import os

with open("README.md", "r", errors='ignore') as f:
    long_description = f.read()

with open('requirements.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-16', errors='ignore') as ff:
    required = ff.read().splitlines()

setup(
    name='livermask',
    version='1.5.0',
    author="André Pedersen and Javier Pérez de Frutos",
    author_email="andrped94@gmail.com",
    license='MIT',
    description="A package for automatic segmentation of liver from CT data",
    long_description=long_description,
    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
    url="https://github.com/andreped/livermask",
    include_package_data=True,
    packages=find_packages(exclude=('figures')), 
    entry_points={
        'console_scripts': [
            'livermask = livermask.livermask:main',
        ]
    },
    install_requires=required,
    classifiers=[
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
    ],
    python_requires='>=3.6',
)