Got a project for someone... Take holger krekel's wonderful apipkg and setuptools' versatile pkg_resources.py, put them together, and define a "nice" API that exposes only the parts that are used externally. Including both the "installed/requirements" database and the actual resources "files on __path__" bits. Bonus points if you download every sdist from pypi and grep for "import pkg_resources" to see how it is really used. Daniel H https://crate.io/packages/apipkg/ http://nullege.com/codes/search?cq=pkg_resources