prepare release 0.7.1, add long_description

setup.py

@@ -1,7 +1,82 @@
 from distutils.core import setup
 
-with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
-    long_description = fh.read()
+long_description = """pyEntropy (pyEntrp)
+===================
+
+|pypi| |Build Status| |codecov| |py27 status| |py36 status| |image1|
+|image2| |image3|
+
+1. `Quick start`_
+2. `Usage`_
+3. `Contributors and participation`_
+
+This is a small set of functions on top of NumPy that help to compute
+different types of entropy for time series analysis.
+
+-  Shannon Entropy ``shannon_entropy``
+-  Sample Entropy ``sample_entropy``
+-  Multiscale Entropy ``multiscale_entropy``
+-  Composite Multiscale Entropy ``composite_multiscale_entropy``
+-  Permutation Entropy ``permutation_entropy``
+-  Multiscale Permutation Entropy ``multiscale_permutation_entropy``
+-  Weighted Permutation Entropy ``weighted_permutation_entropy``
+
+Quick start
+-----------
+
+``pip install pyentrp``
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+.. code:: python
+
+   from pyentrp import entropy as ent
+   import numpy as np
+
+
+   ts = [1, 4, 5, 1, 7, 3, 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 7, 3, 7, 9, 5, 4, 3]
+   std_ts = np.std(ts)
+   sample_entropy = ent.sample_entropy(ts, 4, 0.2 * std_ts)
+
+Requirements:
+-------------
+
+-  ``>numpy-1.7.0``
+
+Contributors and participation
+------------------------------
+
+-  `Nikolay Donets`_
+-  `Jakob Dreyer`_
+-  `Raphael Vallat`_
+-  `Christopher Schölzel`_
+-  `Sam Dotson`_
+
+Contributions are very welcome, documentation improvements/corrections,
+bug reports, even feature requests :)
+
+.. _Quick start: #quick-start
+.. _Usage: #usage
+.. _Contributors and participation: #contribution-and-participation
+.. _Nikolay Donets: https://github.com/nikdon
+.. _Jakob Dreyer: https://github.com/jakobdreyer
+.. _Raphael Vallat: https://github.com/raphaelvallat
+.. _Christopher Schölzel: https://github.com/CSchoel
+.. _Sam Dotson: https://github.com/samgdotson
+
+.. |pypi| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/pypi-0.7.1-green.svg
+   :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyentrp/0.7.1
+.. |Build Status| image:: https://travis-ci.org/nikdon/pyEntropy.svg?branch=master
+   :target: https://travis-ci.org/nikdon/pyEntropy
+.. |codecov| image:: https://codecov.io/gh/nikdon/pyEntropy/branch/master/graph/badge.svg
+   :target: https://codecov.io/gh/nikdon/pyEntropy
+.. |py27 status| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/python2.7-supported-green.svg
+.. |py36 status| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/python3.6-supported-green.svg
+.. |image1| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/python3.7-supported-green.svg
+.. |image2| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/python3.8-supported-green.svg
+.. |image3| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/python3.9-supported-green.svg
+"""
 
 setup(
     name='pyentrp',