> Meh is a Python configuration utility. ... Instead of relying on some kind of data format like JSON it uses something which I can't believe nobody has thought of yet: Python.
Setuptools thought of it. You can see it in his own setup.py.
Removed that paragraph from the readme. While there indeed are projects that have done this before (Django) setuptools is definitely not a config utility and does not define variables on a module wide level.