I've recently released version 0.3.0 of distlib on PyPI [1]. For newcomers,

distlib is a library of packaging functionality which is intended to be

usable as the basis for third-party packaging tools.

The main changes in this release are as follows:

* Partially addressed #102: modules attribute of InstalledDistribution was

  incorrectly computed as a list of bytes, rather than a list of str. This

  has now been corrected.

* Updated Locator._get_digest to check PyPI JSON responses for a "digests"

  dictionary before trying "algo_digest" keys. Thanks to Jeffery To for the

  patch.

* Fixed #123: Improved error message if a resource isn't found.

* Fixed #124: Stopped norm-casing the executable written into shebangs, as

  it doesn't work for some non-ASCII paths.

* Fixed #125: Updated launchers with versions that correctly report errors

  containing non-ASCII characters. The updated launchers now also support

  relative paths (see http://bit.ly/2JxmOoi for more information).

* Fixed #127: Allowed hyphens in flags in export specifications.

* Changed Python version handling to accommodate versions like e.g. 3.10

  (no longer assume a version X.Y where X and Y are single digits).

A more detailed change log is available at [2].

Please try it out, and if you find any problems or have any suggestions for improvements,

please give some feedback using the issue tracker! [3]

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

[1] https://pypi.org/project/distlib/0.3.0/

[2] https://distlib.readthedocs.io/en/0.3.0/

[3] https://bitbucket.org/pypa/distlib/issues/new