title: What is the true equivalent of package.json for pip?
body: <p>I know about <code>requirements.txt</code>, but that only includes a list of dependencies.
  But what about the other meta information like the package name, author, main function etc. ?</p>
  <p>Also i know about <code>setup.py</code> but since i want to programmatically access values inside, i need a configuaration file standard like yaml/json and not python code.</p>
  <p>Did the python community come out with something truly comparable to package.json ?</p>