I have a tool that does this from a wheel: https://github.com/takluyver/wheeldex
From an sdist, I think you need to either build a wheel or install it before you can get this information reliably.
Some of my installed packages have a 'top_level.txt' file in the .dist-info folder, containing a list of the top-level package names installed by that distribution. I don't believe this is formally specified anywhere, though, and packages created by flit do not have it. Thomas On Wed, Mar 29, 2017, at 07:41 PM, Chris Jerdonek wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig