use the README for the long description

Author: cjw296

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+2.0.1 (11 December 2020)
+------------------------
+
+- Use the README as the long description on PyPI.
+
 2.0.0 (11 December 2020)
 ------------------------
 

setup.py

@@ -16,10 +16,7 @@
         'Library for developers to extract data from '
         'Microsoft Excel (tm) .xls spreadsheet files'
     ),
-    long_description=(
-        "Read Excel spreadsheets from .xls files."
-        "Pure Python (2.7, 3.6+). "
-    ),
+    long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
     license='BSD',
     keywords=['xls', 'excel', 'spreadsheet', 'workbook'],
     classifiers=[

xlrd/info.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = __VERSION__ = "2.0.0"
+__version__ = __VERSION__ = "2.0.1"