Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/jsnow-gitlab/tags/python-pull-request' into staging

Pull request

V2:
 - Squashed in fixup for
   'Python: add utility function for retrieving port redirection'
 - Rebased on today's upstream

CI here:
https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/pipelines/313202814

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* remotes/jsnow-gitlab/tags/python-pull-request: (44 commits)
  gitlab: add python linters to CI
  python: add tox support
  python: add .gitignore
  python: add Makefile for some common tasks
  python: add avocado-framework and tests
  python: add devel package requirements to setuptools
  python/qemu: add qemu package itself to pipenv
  python/qemu: add isort to pipenv
  python: move .isort.cfg into setup.cfg
  python: add mypy to pipenv
  python: move mypy.ini into setup.cfg
  python: Add flake8 to pipenv
  python: add excluded dirs to flake8 config
  python: move flake8 config to setup.cfg
  python: add pylint to pipenv
  python: move pylintrc into setup.cfg
  python: add pylint import exceptions
  python: Add pipenv support
  python: add MANIFEST.in
  python: add directory structure README.rst files
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
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index 0000000000..2014f81b75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+QEMU tooling installer script
+Copyright (c) 2020-2021 John Snow for Red Hat, Inc.
+"""
+
+import setuptools
+import pkg_resources
+
+
+def main():
+    """
+    QEMU tooling installer
+    """
+
+    # https://medium.com/@daveshawley/safely-using-setup-cfg-for-metadata-1babbe54c108
+    pkg_resources.require('setuptools>=39.2')
+
+    setuptools.setup()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()