Re: [Distutils] setup.py --install-requires?

April 8, 2009


      Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
...
Is it possible to get the value of install_requires for an arbitrary
package without having to parse setup.py?
I see that --name, --version, --description, --provides, and so on are
available as an argument to setup.py, but --install-requires is missing.
Why?
For example, zc.catalog declares these dependencies in its setup.py
install_requires=['ZODB3',
                        'pytz',
                        'setuptools',
                        'zope.catalog',
                        'zope.container',
                        'zope.component',
                        'zope.i18nmessageid',
                        'zope.index>=3.5.1',
                        'zope.interface',
                        'zope.publisher',
                        'zope.schema',
                        'zope.security',
                        ],
Is it possible to reliably get this list in a custom Python code without
having to parse setup.py?
stdeb does it like this:

install_requires = \
  open(os.path.join(egg_info_dirname,'requires.txt'),'rU').read()

Re: [Distutils] setup.py --install-requires?

Andrew Straw