Re: [Distutils] Introspection on eggs?

At 07:57 PM 2/27/2008 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:

Hi,

I am currently working on a small PyPI replacement for hosting local and private eggs:

<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/haufe.eggserver/0.1.2>

I would like to some introspection on uploaded eggs - basically I am interested in the long_description and some other metadata without having to unpack the egg and parse it on my own. Is there some API available for performing such a task?

You can use dist.get_metadata('PKG-INFO') (where dist is a Distribution object (egg) obtained via any of the usual pkg_resources APIs) to obtain the contents of the PKG-INFO file. You would need to parse it to get the long_description and other stuff out, but it's a pretty simple format.