March 29, 2017
6:41 p.m.
Hi, this seems like a simple question, but I haven't been able to find the answer online: What is the current recommended way to get (1) the name of a project, and (2) the names of the top-level packages installed by a project (not counting the project's dependencies). You have access to / can run the project's setup.py, and you're also allowed to assume that the project is installed. For example, for (1) I know you can do-- $ python setup.py --name But I'm not sure if accessing setup.py is no longer recommended (as opposed to going through a tool like pip). Thanks a lot, --Chris